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IATP applauds lawmakers’ call to FDA for action on antibiotics in ethanol production

Just 10 days after the release of IATP’s latest report, Bugs in the System: How the FDA Fails to Regulate Antibiotics in Ethanol Production, Representatives Edward J.

FDA, ethanol industry ignore regulations and allow unnecessary antibiotics in ethanol production

MINNEAPOLIS – Despite federal regulations to the contrary, unapproved antibiotics used in ethanol production are ending up in animal feed.

The end of antibiotics in ethanol?

Over the last three years, IATP has written numerous reports and blogs about why antibiotic use in ethanol production is unwise and unnecessary.

Bugs in the System

Executive summary

Ethanol, antibiotics and what we don’t know

Alarming research coming out of the University of Minnesota raises concerns over the public health impacts of antibiotic use in ethanol production. 

Antibiotics in pork production: No pig in a poke

A rapidly growing body of evidence is spotlighting the overuse of antibiotics—and the antibiotic-resistant bacteria it breeds—in pork production as a widespread and serious danger to the American food supply and public health.

FDA limits antibiotics in livestock: Better late than never

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.

FDA finally acts to ban unapproved use in food animals of critical human antibiotics

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use of cephalosporin antibiotics in food-producing animals, more than three years after that order was first issued but withdrawn.

The makings of an antibiotic-free farmer-evangelist

We recently got to know Russ Kremer, lifelong pork farmer, president for 10 years of the Missouri Farmers Union, and co-founder and president of Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative.

Stopping superbugs: Time for Congress and industry to catch up with American consumers

Originally published on 12/16/11 at Huff Post Green.  