Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban for unapproved uses of cephalosporins in food animals. Cephalosporins, a class of critically important human antibiotics, are also widely used in livestock and poultry—in 2010 alone, nearly 54,094 lbs. were used in U.S.
Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) today applauded the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for prohibiting some off-label or “extralabel” use of cephalosporin antibiotics in food-producing animals, more than three years after that order was first issued but withdrawn.
Antibiotics are waning in effectiveness, and as a result more and more Americans are getting sick and dying of hard-to-treat—and hugely expensive—infections. The names of these superbugs, like MRSA, are becoming known to all.
POET, the world’s largest ethanol producer, announced Monday the launch of an antibiotic-free ethanol production process in select plants. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) applauded the initiative, and called for the rest of the ethanol industry to remove antibiotics from their production.
Joint letter by Keep Antibiotics Working coalition members to FDA regarding virginiamycin/distillers grains petition. KAW comments on the Ferm Solutions, Inc. Food Additive Petition (Animal Use) for Virginiamycin, Docket No. FDA–2010–F–0510.
Keep Antibiotics Working Statement for the Record, House of Representatives, Health Subcommittee to the Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing on the Public Health Risk from the Use of Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals.