Posted on July 16, 2008

• Keep Antibiotics Working Praises Amendment Establishing An Antimicrobial Data Collection Program

• Factory Farms Feeding Antibiotic Crisis

• Penicillin in peril
• Keep Antibiotics Working Blasts the House for Failing to Protect America’s Public Health

• USDA and FDA are consistent in not protecting food supply

• How to stop superbugs

• Keep Antibiotics Working Statement on New FDA Ban of Extralabel Use of Cephalosporins
• FDA warns farms on antibiotic use

• KAW Welcomes New USDA Antibiotic Research Program

• Bacteria in Pork Showing Resistance to Antibiotics

• KAW Denounces Recent FDA Approval Of Human Antibiotic For Animal Agriculture
• Antibiotic-Free Pigs Carry More Pathogens, But is That a Bad Thing?

• Potentially fatal bacteria found in pigs, farmworkers

• Today's special: superbugs
• First study finds MRSA in U.S. pigs and farmers; U.K reports 3 patients sickened with the bacterium from eating pork only.