ADUFA Animal Drug User Fee Act
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee just released an update of the Animal Drug User Fee Act (ADUFA). This Act is supposed to require drug companies to report details about antibiotic sales, but the provision that would have increased the FDA’s reporting of antibiotic sales used in food animals is missing. The … Read more
Congresspersons Henry Waxman (D-CA) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) have introduced a bill into Congress to better monitor antibiotic use in animals. The bill, H.R. 820, the Delivering Antimicrobial Transparency in Animals (DATA) Act, will provide information on the amount of and use of antibiotics given to animals raised for human consumption. Rep. Waxman said in … Read more
The organization Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW) has released a statement on just released FDA data about antibiotic use in food animals. The government said that for the second year in a row, sales of penicillins and tetracyclines for use in food producing animals increased. Sales rose from 11.5 million pounds in 2009 to 14.4 million … Read more
The Government Accountability Project (GAP) has sued the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over information about how antibiotics are used in food animals. GAP is a non-profit organization in Washington D.C. that supports and litigates on behalf of whistleblowers in the private sector and the federal government. Their Food Integrity Campaign’s mission is to facilitate … Read more