Putting Big Agri-Biz Ahead of Human Health

[nosmokes]

this is just nuts. even for the shrubco standard this is nuts. or maybe the whole anti evolution thing is now being applied to the micro level too? whatever it is, there's no excuse for it. as a rule cattle aren't real prone to infection unless they're being raised in these godamn CAFO conditions so we can poison ourselves with 99¢ grease bombs at junk food drive thrus that hare nutritionally empty. while it might only be a buck outta your pocket the total cost is much higher in terms of societal and environmental impact. and now we can look forward to even more resistant bacteria and infections that are ever harder to treat with costlier and more scarce anti-biotics because we're creating super germs by feeding our cheap beef habit with anti-biotics instead of paying the actual tote for a healthy steer.
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original-seattle times

Will FDA put humans at risk with cow drug?

By Rick Weiss

The Washington Post

The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonialike disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous for people.

The drug, cefquinome, belongs to a class of potent antibiotics that are among medicine's last defense against several serious human infections. No drug from that class has been approved in the United States for use in animals.

The American Medical Association and about 12 other health groups warned the Food and Drug Administration that giving cefquinome to animals probably would speed the emergence of microbes resistant to that important class of antibiotic, as has happened with other drugs. Those supermicrobes could then spread to people.

Echoing those concerns, the FDA's advisory board last fall voted to reject the request by Intervet of Millsboro, Del., to market the drug for cattle.

Yet by all indications, the FDA will approve cefquinome this spring. That outcome is all but required, officials said, by a recently implemented "guidance document" that codifies how to weigh threats to human health posed by proposed new animal drugs.
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complete article here

[MasonJar]

1. Typical government under the Stump.