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The Wall Street Journal August 2, 2005 HEALTH Concern Grows About Antibiotic Use in Food Limited FDA Ban Comes As Ranchers, Retailers Pitch Range of Drug-Free Products By KATY MCLAUGHLIN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 2, 2005; Page D1

Time bombs lace most U.S. meat August 2, 2005 By Diane Carman Denver Post Columnist DenverPost.com On a blistering hot day, rancher Sue Jarrett took two carloads of city slickers on the tour de manure.

From China Daily via China View Pressing the start button on the pulping machine, Li Chaowang, president of Beijing Doo Research and Development Centre, set the centre's newest pulping production line, into operation this month.

Protecting public health used to mean getting people to take their medicine. But as drug-resistant bacterial strains have emerged, curbing the unnecessary use of antibiotics has also become a priority. To its credit, the Food and Drug Administration took a step in that direction Thursday, when it announced a ban on the use of the antibiotic Baytril in poultry.

Sometimes, organizations take a step backward to make two steps forward. Other times, they're simply headed in the wrong direction.

It's not going to be an easy task. The next farm bill will be discussed and drafted during wartime, amid federal budget constraints and at a time when more members of the general public are further removed from the farm and more people realize the largest recipients of farm subsidies are large, wealthy farmers.

From the Associated Press via the Winston-Salem Journal One of the largest landowners in North Carolina could open up a huge sale of property as International Paper considers selling all or part of its approximately 637,000 acres in the state.

FDA revokes approval of Baytril use in poultry The battle over Baytril, the controversial fluoroquinolone antibiotic that industry figures say is essential to ensuring animal health and public interest groups call a dangerous promoter of antibiotic resistance, seems to be all but over with the release of an FDA decision revoking approval for the drug's use in poultry.