Antibiotics

KAW coalition one of "Winners of 2003"

In its January 5, 2004 issue, the food industry trade journal, "Food Chemical News," cited the Keep Antibiotics Working coalition as one of the "winners" of 2003 for "getting the legislation it is backing, the Snowe-Kennedy bill, introduced in the Senate (S 1460) and in the House (HR 2932). The measure would prohibit the routine use of medically important antibiotics in healthy food animals.

Lessons for Antibiotic Resistance from the Mad Cow Disease Outbreak

KAW factsheet. What we feed to the animals we eat can have dramatic health consequences for humans, as the recent reports of Mad Cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or BSE) in U.S. beef cattle make all too clear.

Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition winner in 2003, says Food Chemical News

KAW Applauds Bon Appetit Policy Requiring Suppliers to Carry Meat Raised With Reduced Antibiotics

Press release from Keep Antibiotics Working applauding Bon Appétit’s new purchasing policy requiring meat suppliers to reduce routine antibiotic use.

NH Groups Urge Senate Health Committe Chair Judd Gregg to Support Bill to End Feeding of Medically Important Antibiotics to Livestock

A coalition of the state’s leading health and environmental groups, food producers, and food retailers today announced their support for a bipartisan bill to fight the emerging public-health crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections by reducing antibiotic overuse in meat and poultry production.

KAW Applauds FDA Issuance of Final Guidance on Antibiotics But Criticizes Failure to Set Timetable for Action

The Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition (KAW) applauded the efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to release a final Guidance Document (Guidance #152) on agricultural antibiotics today.

Bipartisan Legislation to Phase Out Use of Antibiotics as Feed Additives

Press release praised the introduction of bipartisan legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate to phase out the use of medically important antibiotics as feed additives for farm animals. (S. 1460, H.R. 2932)

McDonald's Will Tell Meat Suppliers to Cut Antibiotics Use

Washington Post | By Marc Kaufman | June 19, 2003 In response to increasingly dire warnings that widespread use of antibiotics on U.S. farms is making the drugs less effective for treating people, the fast-food chain McDonald's is directing some meat suppliers to stop using antibiotic growth promoters altogether and encouraging others to cut back.

Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition Applauds McDonalds for Recognizing Americans Deserve a Break Today

KAW press release commending McDonald's for its new policy that seeks to reduce the antibiotics used by its meat suppliers.

Group Letter to Representatives Regarding MUMS Bill

Joint letter from more than 100 health, consumer, environmental and other groups to U.S. Representatives urging them to remove a provision of a bill that would worsen the human crisis of bacteria getting increasingly resistant to antibiotics.