date:Oct 22, 2012
power for people.
Waxman's legislation would limit the reporting requirement to animals that are most often consumed and constrain data on antibiotics to those products that are most important for human medicine, according to Consumers Union, which has urged Congress, FDA and some state legislatures to ban the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed.
Earlier this year, a federal judge ordered FDA to begin withdrawing approval for some antibiotics used on livestock until drugmakers can prove