Brian Grow, P.J. Huffstutter and Michael Erman, Farmaceuticals: The drugs fed to farm animals and the risks posed to humans. Reuters Investigates, Part One, 15 September 2014. Part Two, 4 December 2014. Part Three, 23 December 2014. Part One: “Documents reveal how poultry firms systematically feed antibiotics to flocks…. Pervasive use [of antibiotics] fuels concerns about impact on human health, emergence of resistant superbugs.” Part Two: “On American dairy farms, sharp rise in the misuse of a potent but risky drug…. The antibiotic ceftiofur is a wonder drug for dairy farmers. But its strength–and the frequency at which it’s used improperly in cattle–pose a threat to public health.” Part Three: “Veterinarians face conflicting allegiances to animals, farmers–and drug companies…. The FDA is counting on vets to curb antibiotic use, but not even the government knows which of the animal doctors has financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.”
September 15, 2014
Farmaceuticals: The drugs fed to farm animals and the risks posed to humans
September 15, 2014 Filed Under: Corporations, Ethics, Food Industry Tagged With: american veterinary medical association, antibiotic ceftiofur, cephalosporins, donald kennedy (former u.s. food and drug administration commissioner), george's, government accountability office, johns hopkins university's bloomberg school of public health, koch foods, national chicken council, pahrmaceutical industry, perdue farms, pilgrim's pride, salmonella heidelberg, tyson foods, u.s. centers for disease control and prevention, u.s. department of agriculture, zoetis (world's largest animal health company)