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Issue Brief
Supporting Materials: Hearing on Antibiotic Resistance and the use of Antibiotics in Animal Agriculture
On July 14, 2010, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health held a hearing to examine the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture. Below are PDF files of some of the materials entered into the hearing record by organizations and health and agricultural professionals.
Statements
Joint Statement of the Pew Charitable Trusts and 19 other organizations
Statement of Bill Kurtis, Chairman and Founder of Tallgrass Beef Company
Statement of Jim Slama, FamilyFarmed.org
Statement from Bill and Nicolette Hahn Niman, Niman Ranch, Inc.
Statement of Robert S. Lawrence, M.D., Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Statement of Patricia Whisnant, D.V.M., American Grassfed Beef
Statement of Stephen J. Jay, M.D., Indiana University School of Medicine
Statement of Raymond J. Tarpley, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Statement of Everly Macario, ScD, M.S., M.Ed.
Letters
Letter from Crawford Stewardship Project
Letter from the American Holistic Medical Association to Rep. Betty Sutton
Letter from the Ohio AIDS Coalition to Rep. Betty Sutton
Letter from the Ohio Public Health Coalition to Rep. Betty Sutton
Letter from 22 Ohio health care professionals to Rep. Betty Sutton
Letter from the Wisconsin Association of School Nurses to Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Letter from the Wisconsin Farmers Union to Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Other Materials
Resolution from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Policy Statement of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists and the National Association of State Public Health Veterinarian
Download the PDF for the official transcript of the hearing.
Pew Charitable Trusts today applauded Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and Susan Collins (R-ME), for introducing the Antimicrobial Data Collection Act, which would require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, to report more information on the annual sales of antibiotics used among industrial farm animals. The bipartisan bill would also give the agency a deadline to finalize policies proposed last year to eliminate the use of antibiotics for growth promotion purposes in meat production.
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"As a nation, we need to exercise greater care with our use of antibiotics, in both humans and animals, so that these medications remain effective in treating serious bacterial infections."
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On April 23, chefs from across the country traveled to Washington to ask Congress to eliminate the overuse of antibiotics in meat and poultry production.
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On April 16, more than 50 moms, dads, chefs, farmers, and pediatricians came to Washington to call on Congress and the Obama administration to protect the public from superbugs by eliminating the overuse of antibiotics in food animal production.
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SuperChefs Against Superbugs, an initiative of the Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming, is a movement of chefs who want to stop the overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. On April 23, the following seven chefs visited Capitol Hill to explain why they serve meat and poultry raised without antibiotics.
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