Keep Antibiotics Working Urges FDA Acting Commissioner to Take Strong, Quick Action to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance Crisis

KAW | Angela Pauly | April 3, 2009

Today, Keep Antibiotics Working and ten other organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Consumer Federation of America, sent a letter to Deputy FDA Commissioner Joshua Sharfstein calling for quick action to respond to the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance related to veterinary drug use in the United States by:

• First, formally rejecting the application to approve 4th generation cephalosporins for use in food-producing animals;

• Second, reissuing the ban on the extra-label use of cephalosporins in food-producing animals withdrawn last November; and

• Third, making public the findings of FDA’s review of penicillin and other veterinary drugs currently on the market, and taking appropriate action on any drugs shown to be unsafe.

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