Antibiotics

Group Letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg on Antibiotic-Resistant Microorganisms

The steering committee of Keep Antibiotics Working met with FDA Commissioner Dr, Margaret Hamburg to discuss the Food and Drug Administration’s response to the urgent and growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.This letter was sent after after the meeting as a review and to further specific points covered in the meeting.

KAW thank you letter to FDA Commissioner Hamburg

KAW letter thanking FDA Commissioner Hamburg for a recent meeting to discuss the Food and Drug Administration’s response to the urgent and growing crisis of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms.

Keep Antibiotics Working on the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009

KAW press release expressing disappointment that the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R. 2749), marked up in the House Energy and Commerce Committee today does not address the growing problem of antibiotic resistant foodborne pathogens which is an inseparable part of the food safety crisis.  

KAW antibiotics food safety fact sheet

KAW's fact sheet on antibiotic resistant foodbourne pathogens and the relationship to intensifying the food safety crisis. 

Assessing the Full Cost of CAFOs

What do the worldwide epidemics of the new swine flu and MRSA have in common? Both are connected to swine. And for years public health leaders have been calling for changes to animal agriculture that could help prevent them.

Group Letter to FDA Requesting Immediate Action on Cephalosporins

Group letter to the FDA requesting asking immediate action addressing the risks to human and animal health resulting from the inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs in food producing animals by:         1) Making a final decision against the approval of cefquinome for use in food-producing animals,

KAW letter to FDA re: action on antibiotic use

KAW letter to FDA Deputy Commissioner Sharfstein requesting immediate action on antibiotics. Despite a long recognition of the problem, the FDA has delayed taking actions that are necessary to protect public health.

MRSA (ST 398): A New Resistant Disease From Animals

KAW has published a new factsheet explaining MRSA ST 398.

Saving Antibiotics

You may have read New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's frightening story about small-town doctor Tom Anderson and his subsequent column on the connection between confined, industrial hog farming and the presence of methicill

Rep. Slaughter Reintroduces Bill to Help Fight Antibiotic Resistance Crisis

WASHINGTON -- Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) -- a national coalition of health, consumer, agricultural, environmental, humane, and other advocacy groups with more than ten million supporters -- today welcomed the reintroduction of a bill that would help combat the antibiotic resistance crisis by targeting the overuse of antibiotics important to human medicine in animal agriculture.