date:May 14, 2012
minimized and FDA has the ability to limit their use if it serves to protect public health.
The letter follows a new report by Minneapolis-based Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, which highlights the fact that many ethanol producers routinely add antibiotics like medically important penicillin and erythromycin, as well as virginiamycin and tylosin, when mixing corn mash and warm water to ferment the ethanol.
Producers use antibiotics to keep the tanks from being contaminated with