Keep Antibiotics Working Statement for the Record, House of Representatives, Health Subcommittee to the Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on the Public Health Risk from the Use of Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals.

Antibiotic resistance has long been considered by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) one of the “most pressing public health problems.”  Summarizing four decades of scientific research, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently identified an important part of the problem: the injudicious use of antibiotics in food animal production.The age of miracle antibiotics may be coming to an end. Before even more people die of resistant infections, KAW therefore advocates that Congress at long last address this crisis, and, in particular, support the scientifically sound approach found in H.R. 1549, The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA).