FDA must remove antibiotics from animal feed: judge
new YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge ordered to the U.S. regulators to withdraw the authorization of use of common antibiotics in feedingstuffs, the mention concern that excessive use can put in risk human health by creating “superbacterias” resistant to medication. The judge Theodore Katz ordered Thursday the Administration food and United States drugs (FDA by its acronym in English) to begin procedures to put an end to the authorization unless the producers of medicines can generate evidence that their use is safe. If the laboratories can not prove that inofensividad, the FDA must withdraw approval for non-medical uses of these drugs, the judge ruled. The Agency had begun with these procedures in 1997, driven by concerns about the widespread use in the food for the cattle of certain antibiotics, particularly tetracycline and penicillin, more common. But that process never was completed and the authorization remains in effect. “in these years has been growing scientific evidence of the “ risks to the health of the expanded of antibiotics use in cattle, and there is no evidence that the FDA has changed its position on that isn’t shown that these uses are “ insurance”, wrote Katz. The demand was made by environmental groups and defence of public health. The plaintiffs argued that use common antibiotics in the cattle feed contributed to rapid growth of bacteria resistant to drugs in animals...
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