Tuesday, February 8, 2011

U.S. FDA and the dairy industry to antibiotics playing war of words

 Food Industry Network HC Beijing the afternoon of January 26, according to foreign reports, each year hundreds of federal prosecutors will find head was rushed to the slaughter of older cows antibiotics exceeded. These antibiotics may also enter for fear of Americans drink milk, the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) intends to begin this month, exceeding many times from the ranch of antibiotics in milk were detected.


However, this testing program was a strong protest against the dairy industry. They claim the plan would force dairy farmers are waiting for test results unnecessarily drained millions of gallons of milk. Industry officials and state regulators said the idea of the test program is very bad, could lead to costly recalls, and this can improve the testing program through more avoided.

In response, FDA delayed the test, and now the two sides are the dangers of antibiotics and how to ensure that the antibiotics will not enter the milk heated war of words.

Association of American dairy farmers, senior vice president John - Wilson (John J. Wilson), said: is safe, there is no reason to believe that the slaughterhouse in the milk test results will be reproduced.

But food safety advocates that the FDA made the initial discovery of excessive use of antibiotics in livestock on the subject, many people worry that this could undermine the effectiveness of antibiotic resistance in human disease.

a food safety expert, said: residue, while dairy farmers is to control that person. (Cheng of) 

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