Posted by This Land is Our Land Misuse of antibiotics in healthy animals is breeding antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Government lab tests of supermarket meat show surprisingly high numbers of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. In 2011, nearly 30 million pounds of antibiotics were sold for use in food animals — roughly four times the quantity sold to treat people. Rep. Louis Slaughter (D-NY) has introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, or PAMTA, to help reverse this trend by requiring the federal Food and Drug Administration to review approvals of antibiotics for nontherapeutic use in food animals. The agency would withdraw those approvals that threaten human health by encouraging proliferation of superbugs that can defeat antibiotics designed to kill them. When superbugs infect humans, the illnesses they trigger are hard to treat and in some cases lead to death. We want healthy food, not food that carries superbugs. Please take action today.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 01:47:40 +0000
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