In the News
In the News
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| Aug 24, 2012 |
SuperChefs Against Superbugs, an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is a movement of chefs nationwide who have expressed their support of ending the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. As a result, the SuperChefs are urging the Food and Drug Administration to strengthen its antibiotic policies. |
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| Aug 17, 2012 |
''Senators Urge FDA to Collect More Data on Antibiotics in Agriculture'' Thirteen senators from both sides of the aisle wrote to U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg this week asking the agency to collect more data on antibiotics used in food animal production. |
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| Aug 17, 2012 |
219,000+ Americans Unite to Urge FDA to End Antibiotic Overuse More than 219,000 people across the country have urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end antibiotic overuse on industrial farms just to make animals grow faster and compensate for overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. |
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| Aug 1, 2012 | "Amid growing consumer awareness about antibiotics used to raise food animals, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service is taking a look at some of the claims made on meat packages, including "antibiotic free." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 26, 2012 | An NFL salary can afford an athlete plenty of ways to while away the offseason. Will Witherspoon fell into cattle herding. And that lead him to his latest quest — building support for a bill that would ban the use of antibiotics on healthy animals in farming. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 23, 2012 |
Chefs Highlight Need to End Overuse of Antibiotics in Food Animal Production Celebrity chefs and restaurateurs Suzanne Goin and Mary Sue Milliken, who serve only antibiotic-free meat in their establishments, came to Washington, D.C., on May 15 to tell the Administration and their representatives in Congress to rein in the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in food animal production. |
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| Jul 9, 2012 |
''Antibiotic-free meat and poultry score high in Consumer Reports survey''' Many grocery stores offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes at prices below what you would expect. Those meats are popular but shoppers need to be careful with labels that tout "no antibiotics administered" and similar claims. |
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| Jun 28, 2012 | "Consumer Reports, a nonprofit product-testing organization, is urging the largest grocery stores in the nation, starting with Trader Joe's, to stop selling meat and poultry raised on antibiotics." | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 28, 2012 | Some argue that, without antibiotics, the agricultural industry will collapse. Danish scientist Frank Aarestrup begs to differ. Denmark is the world's largest exporter of pork, exporting 90% of all it produces, and it did much more than ban the use of antibiotics for growth. It reduced their usage overall and built a comprehensive surveillance system to track and target overuse. | Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 11, 2012 |
''FDA lays out steps to reduce overuse of antibiotics in animals grown for food'' "The Food and Drug Administration called on drug companies Wednesday to help limit the use of antibiotics given to farm animals, a decades-old practice that scientists say has contributed to a surge in dangerous, drug-resistant bacteria." |
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| Apr 11, 2012 |
''U.S. Tightens Rules on Antibiotics Use for Livestock'' "Farmers and ranchers will for the first time be required to get a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in cattle, pigs, chickens and other animals, federal food regulators announced on Wednesday ... " |
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| Apr 10, 2012 |
''Stop feeding antibiotics to livestock'' "I was pleased to see the recent editorial ("Troublesome antibiotics," April 3) addressing the widespread practice of feeding antibiotics to livestock ... " |
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| Mar 24, 2012 |
''Court orders FDA action on antibiotic use on farms'' "WASHINGTON (AP) A federal court judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to take action on its own 35 year old rule that would stop farmers from mixing popular antibiotics into animal feed ..." |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 23, 2012 |
''Court orders FDA to examine antibiotics use on animals'' "A federal court on Thursday ordered the FDA to follow through on a 35 year old proposal that would have banned the use of certain antibiotics in animal feed ... " |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Mar 23, 2012 |
''More On Court Ordering FDA Hearings on Farm Antibiotics'' "Since I posted last night on the judge’s order that the Food and Drug Administration examine the safety of farm antibiotics -- via hearings that the FDA scheduled, but never held, back in 1977 -- a lot has happened." |
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