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FDA to withdraw approvals of arsenic in animal feed

October 1st, 2013, Washington, DC —Late yesterday, under threat of a lawsuit, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responded to a nearly four-year-old petition, calling for the immediate withdrawal of the vast majority of arsenic-containing compoun

Letter to President Obama from 795 health professionals regarding antibiotics

June 4, 2013 President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama:

FDA ignores toxic arsenic in animal feed

Washington, D.C., May 1, 2013 – Today attorneys at Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a lawsuit on behalf of CFS, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, and seven other U.S.

Work in a poultry plant? The good news is you still have a job, the bad news is it may be killing you

Earlier this spring, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) was in the news because of a threat that the agency’s 8000+ inspectors would be furloughed as part of

Petitioning the FDA: Get antibiotics out of ethanol byproduct sold as animal feed

Antibiotics and ethanol seems like a non sequitur, unfortunately that’s far from the truth. A petition filed by IATP and partners shows why and asks the FDA to ban the use of antibiotics in ethanol byproducts as unnecessary and illegal.

When ignorance ain't bliss

I’m sure you care as much as I do about having a working antibiotic around when you really need one, or your child needs one.

35 groups band together to ask for more on antibiotics in animal agriculture

Yesterday, IATP joined 34 other groups in writing to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Public Health Enhancements to the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA)

IATP, along with 34 other KAW coalition members, sent this group letter to Congress to urge that the re-authorization of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA) include provisions to help preserve the efficacy of antibiotics vital to protecting public health.

Animal antibiotic use continues upwards, FDA keeps blinders on

With legislation in 2008, Congress for the first time asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to collect and report to the public the overall sales of antibiotics used in food animals. February 6 marked the release of a third year’s worth of data.

Thousands call on FDA to stop turning a blind eye to antibiotics squandered in animal feed

A week ago, with most of us still digesting election results—and our turkey—a critical deadline passed in the struggle to convince the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pull back the veil of ignorance around how antibiotics are being fed or given to pigs, chickens, turkeys and cattle animal agriculture.

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