/The Washington post reports that the FDA is expected to approve the
marketing of the new antibiotic called Cefquinome for use in cattle.
This is over objections of the American medical association, the FDA
advisory board and the World Health Organization. Cefquinome is from a
class of highly potent 'last line of defense' antibiotics for several
serious human infections. It is feared that large scale use in cattle
will allow bacteria to develop a resistance to these drugs
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR20
07030301311.html.
http://snipurl.com/1c2yj
This news follows complaints from the FDA that it is no longer getting
the funds needed to do the research required for the desired level of
food safety./
Some background on the hazards of factory farms' use of antibiotics:
http://journeytoforever.org/fyi_previous2.html#antibiotic
Antibiotic use
It's 38 years since the Swann Commission report, and Bayer finally
agreed to withdraw it's Cipro-like poultry antibiotic 18 months ago,
hey, isn't that Progress.
http://snipurl.com/1c2yg
Ending Battle With FDA, Bayer Withdraws Poultry Antibiotic
Washington Post
Friday, September 9, 2005
(If they actually have withdrawn it.)
http://snipurl.com/1c2xh
The rise of superbugs
STLtoday - News - Editorial / Commentary
02/23/2007
http://snipurl.com/1c2xt
Subtracting an additive
The Boston Globe
February 11, 2007
http://www.KeepAntibioticsWorking.com/new/news.cfm?refID=96832
Johns Hopkins researchers say costs of using poultry antibiotics
outweigh gains for farmers
Associated Press
January 4, 2007
It's even sillier than that:
The February 2000 issue of the University of Florida's Poultry
Letter reported that the poultry industry in Denmark, which had
voluntarily stopped using all antibiotics in feeds in 1998, had
found, nationwide, raising more than 100 million birds a year, that
there had been no major outbreaks of disease, and that although the
birds had eaten more food, they weighed more at slaughter -- and were
cheaper to produce. There was no need for the antibiotics in the
first place.
-- Journey to Forever FYI
Best
Keith
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