FDA scraps 12-year-old petition to pull antibiotic approvals for food animals

摘要

Twelve years after filing a petition calling for the phase-out of non-medical uses of antibiotics in food animals, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently denied these petitions by saying withdrawing approvals for certain antimicrobial uses in food animals would consume too much of the agency's time and resources. Petitions were filed by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) in 1999 and again in 2005, both asking FDA to withdraw approvals for herd-wide uses of antibioticsin chickens, swine and beef cattle for the purposes of growth promotion and disease prevention.