date:Dec 24, 2018
. FDA has said they will address these uses, but has not yet done so.
And theres another issue. Appendix A, which was drafted in 2003 and hasnt been updated, doesnt list some antibiotics as medically important. The World Health Organization (WHO) considers some of those drugs, including colistin and bacitracin, to be critically important to human medicine.
The FDA does plan to update Appendix A in the future although a date is not specified. Food safety experts hope that the agency speeds up it