date:May 14, 2012
Last week, Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking some tough questions about the potential link between ethanol byproducts in animal feed and antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria are a grave public health threat that is growing worldwide, wrote Markey and Slaughter. As the threat of antibiotic resistance expands, we must ensure that the unnecessary use of antibiotics in agricultural animals is