Factory farms

Major Contributor of Arsenic in Animal Feed Halts Practice

Pfizer announced it will stop selling (for now) it's arsenic-containing product, 3-Nitro, for use in chicken, turkeys and swine.

Feeding China’s Pigs: Implications for the Environment, China’s Smallholder Farmers and Food Security

Executive Summary

Buying Better Chicken: A Resource to buying chicken Raised without Antibiotics and Arsenic for Schools, Hospitals and Other Purchasers

This chart is based on information provided directly by producers and suppliers via websites and phone interviews, via producer listings on certifier and eco-label websites, and by extrapolation from our knowledge of standards used by certifiers and eco-labels.

Buying better chicken for schools, hospitals and other organizations

Making healthy choices can be difficult, even when you know what you're looking for. The myriad of standards and certifications can be hard to navigate, especially in poultry: Does antibiotic-free mean no antibiotics in the feed or no antibiotics used in raising the animal? Do poultry producers have to list whether or not arsenic is used?

Food safety going global

Minneapolis, February 22, 2011 — Many argue that globalized trade creates a “race to the bottom,” where the country with the weakest regulations or lowest wages ultimately sets the standards in the global marketplace. Something different may now be happening around food safety: Global forces are putting pressure on U.S.

Feeding Animals Antibiotics: Not Helping U.S. Meat Export

At a 2010 Congressional briefing sponsored by Rep. Louise Slaughter, I warned the continued and routine overuse of antibiotics in U.S. meat production could be shooting the global competitiveness of that industry in the foot.

Group Letter to FDA on Food Additive Petition (Animal Use) for Virginiamycin

Comments submitted to the FDA on the Ferm Solutions, Inc. Food Additive Petition (Animal Use) for Virginiamycin, Docket No. FDA–2010–F–0510.

Group letter to Secretary Vilsack on "Judicious" Use of Antibiotics

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".  

Group Letter to FDA on Tiamulin Drug Safety Data

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.

Comment to FDA on Draft Guidance #209, The Judicious Use of Medically Important Antimicrobial Drugs in Food-Producing Animals

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.