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Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW)
The Keep Antibiotics Working Coalition today praised the introduction of a bill backed by numerous medical groups that would combat the antibiotic resistance crisis by phasing out the non-therapeutic use in animal agriculture of antibiotics that are important in human medicine.
The legislation was introduced in the Senate (S. 549) today by Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) and Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Jack Reed (D-RI). It was introduced in the House of Representatives (H.R. 962) on Thursday by Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the only microbiologist in Congress. The American Medical Association, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Academy of Pediatrics are among the more than 350 health, agriculture and other groups nationwide that have endorsed the bill.
