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Pew group promises continued pressure on antibiotics legislation
Story Date: 3/20/2013
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Source: Lisa M. Keefe, MEATINGPLACE, 3/19/13
The Pew Charitable Trusts, in a statement released Monday, expressed disappointment in the version of the Animal Drug User Fee Act that was released for a committee vote this week. The group promised to continue working to get legislation passed that would require livestock operations to report more information about the antibiotics that they use in food animals — disclosure that the livestock producers and processors oppose.
"We are extremely disappointed that the Senate committee charged with protecting our health has neglected its mission," said Laura Rogers, project director for the campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming of The Pew Charitable Trusts. "The nation's public health leaders urged the committee to allow the Food and Drug Administration to collect more detailed information about the sale of antibiotics for food animal production. Antibiotic overuse in meat and poultry production is breeding superbugs that threaten human health, but we have no information that reveals in which animals and for which purposes these drugs are administered so widely. Without greater transparency, the overuse of these drugs may continue unchecked."
Rogers went on to say that the Pew organization will continue to work to include the deleted provisions in the final version of the bill.
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