Regulatory comments

Comments submitted to EPA to urge the agency to deny the request from the Michigan Department of Agriculture for a specific exemption to use the pesticide gentamicin to control streptomycin-resistance fire blight. (Docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2006-0234).

Submitted to EPA on the agency's risk assessment for the pesticide oxytetracycline. KAW strongly encourages EPA to apply risk management steps consistent with the FDA approach.

KAW recommends an antibiotic use standard for South Dakota Certified Natural Beef program and urges the South Dakota Department of Agriculture to strongly consider a certification standard that, at minimum, prohibits the use of medically important antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes.

This article, published by the American Nurses Association in the nursing journal Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice, Feb. 2006, calls for action to be taken to slow the growth of antibiotic resistant microbes and decrease inappropriate agricultural practices contributing to the problem.

The Hong Kong development package is a guise for further impoverishment of developing economies, those hardest hit by liberalization. A point-by-point rebutal from IATP.

Letter submitted to the Minneapolis Star Tribune in response to an article criticizing sugar beet farmers for being concerned about the impact of CAFTA on their livelihoods.