Banning Antibiotics in Livestock – Submit Your Comment Through August 28

Culinate reports that the FDA is attempting to ban several uses of antibiotics in livestock (though it may already be too late to keep antibiotics useful in the long term). They have a draft guidance which is open to public comment through August 28. Antibiotics are commonly used in industrial agriculture to promote growth and as a prophylactic for disease resulting from the poor conditions of confined animal feeding operations, as well as for treating the diseases when they do develop.

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