Media Coverage
Media Coverage
| Date | Media Coverage | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2005 |
''Seven Pew Biomedical Scholars are Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators'' "Launched in 1985, the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences provides four years of crucial support to fifteen investigators in the early to mid stages of their careers who show outstanding promise in the basic and clinical sciences. This year seven Pew Scholars, along with 36 other promising biomedical scientists, were named Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigators." Source: HHMI News |
Biomedical Research |
| Apr 17, 2013 |
''Lewiston Woman Sickened by Ground Beef Rallies Against Antibiotics in Meat'' A past bout of salmonella led Maine resident Danielle Wadsworth to travel to Washington, D.C. this week to argue for stronger regulations to curtail the use of antibiotics in livestock farming. She took part Wednesday in "Supermoms Against Superbugs," an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming. Source: Bangor Daily News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Apr 16, 2013 |
''Nashville Voices Take Concerns About Antibiotic Resistance to Washington'' Dr. Cecilia Di Pentima is in Washington, D.C., for “Supermoms against Superbugs” to push for laws to curtail the use of antibiotics in livestock farming — one of many fronts in the battle to preserve the effectiveness of the medicines. Family physicians in the South, including Tennessee, have also been identified as inadvertent purveyors of drug-resistant bacteria by prescribing too many antibiotics. Source: The Tennesseean |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Dec 26, 2012 |
''The One Issue Food Activists Should Focus On'' ''Ask a dozen food activists what political change they want to see in 2013 and you’ll get a dozen different answers, maybe two dozen: Restrict sodium in packaged foods. Label genetically modified ingredients. End subsidies to big farms. All are critical. What did meet all the requirements was this: Get antibiotics off the farm and out of the food supply." Source: The Washington Post |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Sep 4, 2012 |
''Farm Use of Antibiotics Defies Scrutiny'' "Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and poultry are not required to report how they use the drugs — which ones, on what types of animal, and in what quantities. This dearth of information makes it difficult to document the precise relationship between routine antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic-resistant infections in people, scientists say." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Aug 23, 2012 |
Recent Outbreak Stresses Need for New Antibiotics On August 22, researchers at the National Institute of Health released a scientific paper detailing the use of advanced genetic technology to trace a deadly infection, untreatable by nearly every antibiotic, that spread through the NIH’s Clinical Center last year. Source: |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jul 13, 2012 |
''Dear F.D.A.: Stop Drugging Animals'' "The comment period for the F.D.A.’s ruling on antibiotic use in animals closed yesterday, and at least 200,000 people have told the agency that the routine use of drugs in animal rearing must be restricted. The agency, which has stalled on this for 30 years, has been ordered by two judges to act now." Source: The New York Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 14, 2012 |
''Infection cases stir debate on antiobiotic use'' "Food safety activists and some medical professionals argue that overuse of antibiotics in people and food animals is causing drug resistance, and they want regulations to curb their use. Anytime antibiotics are used, whether in humans or animals, resistance can build, said Dr. Gail Hansen, a veterinary public health officer with the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming in Washington, D.C." Source: Detroit News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jun 14, 2012 |
"Since the 1950s, most American food animals have been routinely dosed with antibiotics, through their feed and water, in order to hasten their maturation and prevent disease from spreading in the close quarters of factory farms. According to the FDA, 80 percent of all antibiotics sold in this country are administered to livestock, most of them healthy." Source: The New Yorker |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 31, 2012 |
"Americans take antibiotics carelessly, prophylactically, almost recreationally, and our overuse is creating superbugs that no drug will be able to kill. Another major contributing factor in this crisis is the overuse of antibiotics in the farming industry." Source: Redbook.com |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 15, 2012 |
''How Cheap Meat Practices Beef Up Superbugs Like MRSA'' "As 1½ year old Simon Sparrow lay dying in a hospital in April 2004, doctors were perplexed as to what was causing his illness." Source: ABC News |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| May 15, 2012 |
''Mothers, Farmers and Chefs Against Antibiotic Misuse'' "Today, Everly and a number of other women — mothers of drug-resistance victims, and mothers who themselves were victims of resistant bugs — brought their campaign to Capitol Hill." Source: Wired |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production, Moms For Antibiotic Awareness |
| Mar 1, 2012 |
''Antibiotic Resistance: An Emerging Food Safety Concern'' "Antibiotics are drugs capable of killing bacteria or disrupting their reproduction without harming their host, and have been used for more than 70 years to treat people with infections and for more than 50 years in veterinary medicine." Source: Food Safety Magazine |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 9, 2012 |
''FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock'' "The debate over the drug use in food animals continues as federal regulators tackle the issues of drug-resistance and shorter supplies." Source: The Los Angeles Times |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
| Jan 4, 2012 |
''FDA curbs use of certain antibiotics in animals'' "After long delays, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an order today prohibiting certain uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys." Source: Chicago Tribune |
Antibiotics in Food Animal Production |
