KAW press release regarding the letter sent by more than 100 health, consumer, environmental and other groups to U.S. Senators urging them to remove a provision of a bill that would worsen the human crisis of bacteria getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics.
Comments to the Agricultural Marketing Service regarding Docket No. LS 02 02. KAW strongly recommends that USDA adopt the claim “No antibiotics used, or Raised without antibiotics.”
Letter from KAW to USDA's AMS regarding proposed Standards for Livestock and Meat Marketing Claims and strongly recommends that USDA adopt the claim “No antibiotics used, or Raised without antibiotics".
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the new final rule today for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that fails to act on the growing threat of antibiotic resistance caused by the unnecessary use of antibiotics in CAFOs.
Press release announcing two new independent studies that show that a large proportion of the brand name chicken and turkey products tested are contaminated with disease-causing bacteria, Campylobacter or Salmonella, that are resistant to one or more antibiotics.
The first study to examine brand-name poultry products prominent in grocery stores for the presence of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria, including resistance to important antibiotics relied upon to treat human infections like Ciprofloxacin (Cipro), Synercid, and Tetracycline. This report is a joint effort by the Sierra Club and IATP.
Statement by Peter Coppelman of KAW on the FDA's Draft Guidance for Industry. KAW raises the key question as to whether the FDA is going to reevaluate the safety of antibiotics already approved for use in animal agriculture, because this is where the greatest current danger to public health lies.
Comments on the FDA's Draft Guidance for Industry, Guidance for Industry Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regard to Their Microbiological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern, released Sept. 6, 2002.
