A group of organizations delivered more than 180,000 letters to the Food and Drug Administration Thursday in response to the agency’s request for comments on proposed changes to agricultural antibiotics usage.
The groups in the coalition that collected the letters include The Humane Society of the United States, Center for Food Safety, Center for Science in the Public Interest, CREDO Action, FamilyFarmed.org, Farm Aid, Food & Water Watch, Food Democracy Now!, Organic Consumers Association and Union of Concerned Scientists.
In a joint statement, the groups called on the FDA to “heed the overwhelming scientific evidence and outpouring of citizen concern by (1) strengthening the agency’s [Veterinary Feed Directive] guidelines and (2) making mandatory, rather than voluntary, its June guidance to ensure that antibiotics only be used under veterinary supervision to treat sick animals, thus protecting human health.”
Source: MeatingPlace
