Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) and Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) letter to FDA regarding its lack of including ABR as a strategic priority in its plan.
Group letter in response to Secretary of Agriculture Vilsack's comments at the National Cattleman's Beef Association where he stated that the USDA believed livestock producers are using antibiotics "judiciously".
The type 2 supplemental approval of tiamulin is the third of its kind since retapamulin was approved for humans in 2007. Each of these approvals was an opportunity for FDA to require drug sponsors to provide microbial safety data related to antimicrobial resistance. Yet in each case the Agency failed to act.
This joint letter, submitted by Keep Antibiotics Working to the FDA, Docket No. FDA-2010-D-0094, addresses the issue of the FDA not doing enough about the overuse of antibiotics in food animals.
KAW official comments on FDA Draft Guidance 209. KAW asks that the FDA stop further delays and make public what meaningful steps it intends to take to address the problem of the inappropriate use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, including the use of antimicrobials for routine disease prevention.
KAW comments on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR) regarding potential changes to its current regulation relating to veterinary feed directive (VFD) drugs, 75 Fed. Reg., 15387-88 (March 29, 2010).
Minneapolis, July 30, 2010* — Would you like some antibiotic-resistant bacteria with your grilled chicken at your backyard barbecue? Of course not. But that likelihood continues to grow unless the government makes industry change the way most American farm animals are raised.
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.
Author Maryn McKenna discusses MRSA, the topic of her new book SUPERBUG, and how reducing our reliance on antibiotics in agriculture could help stop resistant strains like MRSA. Lindy Bannister, GM of the Wedge Community Coop in Minneapolis, discusses her recent trip to China with IATP President Jim Harkness.
