Food and Drugmakers Fight Antibiotic Regulation Even As Reports of Human Risks Grow

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By Dr. Mercola

By Dr. Mercola

Attempts by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decrease the widespread use of antibiotics in livestock production have seldom succeeded.

An effort to prohibit cephalosporins like Cefzil and Keflex in 2008 was stopped by frenzied lobbyists from the egg, chicken, turkey, milk, pork and cattle industries, who claimed they could not “farm” without the drugs.

Their trade groups, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) and the Animal Health Institute (AHI) also put pressure on the FDA, which backed down.1

In 2014, the FDA again tried to regulate antibiotics, floating a …read more

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