Comment to FDA on Food Additive Petition for Erythromycin Thiocyanate (Animal Use)

Comments to the FDA regarding the North American Bioproducts Corp. (NABC) Food Additive Petition for Erythromycin Thiocyanate (Animal Use) and recommending that the FDA not approve the addition of the critically important human drug erythromycin to animal feed due to the risk to public health from the development of antimicrobial resistance.  

FDA letter from Minnesota coops on arsenic and animal feed

A letter from food cooperatives in Minnesota to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in support of the legal petition by IATP and Center for Food Safety to FDA to withdraw support for the use of arsenic in animal feed.  

Letter to the FDA regarding the use of Food Dyes

Letter to the FDA regarding the use of Food Dyes and endorsement of the CSPI petition from June, 2008

A call for Water Justice in Copenhagen

At the UNFCCC in Copenhagen, this declaration, signed by water justice and human rights advocates, was presented at the Klimaforum side event. It called for a legally binding World Water Agreement to be administered by the United Nations. IATP helped to draft this Declaration.

Letter to Congressional Leadership Calling for Aggregate Position Limits

IATP, along with other members of the Commodity Markets Oversight Coalition (CMOC), sent this letter to the Congressional leadership calling for the same aggregate position limits for all market participants along with other measures in order to level the playing field.

Group Letter Urging President Obama to Support The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) of 2009

To meet the challenge of the misuse of antibiotics effectively, FDA must address the full range of nontherapeutic uses. Addressing only the growth promotion and feed efficiency uses of antibiotics, estimated by industry to be just 10 to 15 percent of the total, would make only a minor dent in the problem.

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.

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,

Smart Guide to Food Dyes: Buying Foods That Can Help Learning

Consumers are surrounded with candies and processed foods containing synthetic food dyes. Increasingly, these dyes have been found to increase hyperactivity and other disturbed behavior in children. These synthetic dyes, mostly petroleum-derived, are unnecessary.

Letter to the Obama Administration: Legally binding treaty to reduce mercury exposure

Mercury is a dangerous neurotoxin that can make its way up the food chain into humans, and poses an increased exposure risk to developing fetuses and young children, causing permanent learning disabilities. IATP was one of over 90 U.S. and international organizations sending this letter last week to President Obama asking for U.S.