FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug -More Anti-biotics in Your Beef

[nosmokes]

a little more than half of all all anti-biotics is used on ag stock animals. appetizing, eh? that's one of the major reasons we have so many antibiotics that don't work now.
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original-Washington post

FDA Rules Override Warnings About Drug

Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk

By Rick Weiss
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 4, 2007; A01

The government is on track to approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like 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, called cefquinome, belongs to a class of highly potent antibiotics that are among medicine's last defenses 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 a dozen other health groups warned the Food and Drug Administration that giving cefquinome to animals would probably speed the emergence of microbes resistant to that important class of antibiotics, as has happened with other drugs. Those super-microbes could then spread to people.

Echoing those concerns, the FDA's advisory board last fall voted to reject the request by InterVet Inc. 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 the threats to human health posed by proposed new animal drugs.

The wording of "Guidance for Industry #152" was crafted within the FDA after a long struggle. In the end, the agency adopted language that, for drugs like cefquinome, is more deferential to pharmaceutical companies than is recommended by the World Health Organization.
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complete article here

[redqueen]

1. Unbelievable...

Well, not really, no... but geez.

*sigh*

It's like they're TRYING to foster the development of a superbug.

[Horse with no Name]

2. This is scary

Very very scary.
It doesn't do Doctor's any good to minimize the use of antibiotics in humans when the FDA approves of them dumping them into the food supply.

[Beaverhausen]

3. So glad I haven't eaten beef for over 20 years

[Horse with no Name]

4. High powered antibiotics in beef

are no different than Mad Cow.
If the press does their job and gets the story out there, this should have serious repercussions for the beef industry.

[Atman]

5. DON'T EAT BEEF

Jesus...at least, don't eat commercially processed beef from giant agri-mega-farms. Buy your own cow, pay to have it raised at a nearby farm and care for it yourself if you really, really need to eat cow flesh, and be active in it's upbringing until the day you send it to slaughter. Or buy from a whole foods store you can 100% trust. But it's a whole hell of a lot easier just not to eat agri-biz cows. Stop eating the shit. It will kill you, and the massive agri-business farms are killing the planet.

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[kestrel91316]

6. I love the taste of beef. I don't eat much of it, and haven't in years.

There are only two chuck roasts in my freezer, which I WILL NOT waste............but at this point I'm not buying any more beef unless it's grass fed.

I'm done.

I almost died of an allergic reaction to sulfa drugs years ago, and NEVER figured out how I got allergic to them in the first place (you can't be allergic to something you've never been exposed to before). Probably sulfa drug residues in beef I was eating at the time.

[unpossibles]

7. yet another reason to not eat it

the bad part though, is that even without eating it, this is bad news as this practice creates new resistant strains anyway.

[Deja Q]

8. Americans eat beef. Do Europeans eat beef? Which countries do not?

:tinfoilhat:

[caligirl]

9. National Cattlemans association needs to feel the ill effcts this drug

can cause for them as well.

I will boycott all beef products of the cattle are injected with this.

[niyad]

10. makes one wonder if they aren't trying to kill people off in droves. I am allergic to antibiotics,

and had a very nasty reaction the first time I ever ate beef that had been fed that way, only didn't know it for a very long time.

haven't eaten beef in many years, wondering what else they are doing to our food supply besides gm foods, irradiated foods, bovine growth hormone, etc, etc.,

can't even guarantee that growing your own is safe--look at what monsanto is doing to the seeds.