Keep Antibiotics Working applauded Maine’s Agriculture Committee for taking historic action to make Maine the first state to adopt a meat purchasing policy to address the antibiotic resistance crisis in human medicine.
The Keep Antibiotics Working coalition today praised the U.S. Department of Agriculture for proposing a new labeling standard for grass-fed beef that will help preserve vital human and animal drugs by allowing consumers to choose meats produced in grass-based systems that use fewer antibiotics. The proposal gives ranchers incentives to cut antibiotic use.
Comments submitted to EPA to urge the agency to deny the request from the Michigan Department of Agriculture for a specific exemption to use the pesticide gentamicin to control streptomycin-resistance fire blight. (Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0234).
Submitted to EPA on the agency's risk assessment for the pesticide oxytetracycline. KAW strongly encourages EPA to apply risk management steps consistent with the FDA approach.
KAW recommends an antibiotic use standard for South Dakota Certified Natural Beef program and urges the South Dakota Department of Agriculture to strongly consider a certification standard that, at minimum, prohibits the use of medically important antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes.
KAW thank you letter to Tyson regarding the USA Today story (01.24.2006) about Tyson's success in dramatically reducing the quantity of antibiotics that are used in chicken production.
KAW thank you letter to Foster Farms regarding a USA Today story (01.24.2006) on Foster Farm’s success in dramatically reducing the quantity of antibiotics used in chicken production,
KAW thank you letter to Perdue regarding the USA Today story (01.24.2006) that Perdue has entirely eliminated the routine use of all feed grade antibiotics used to promote growth.
Letter congratulating the Director of Sunflower Markets for opening a new store that will stock meat and poultry raised without the routine use of antibiotics. The letter acknowledges how stores such as Sunflower Market have increased the demand for meat and poultry raised with fewer antibiotics and how that helps with the meat production industry is changing its ways.
