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JUDGE RULES FDA MUST RECONSIDER ANTIBIOTIC BAN PETITIONS
Jun. 6, 2012
BrownfieldAgNews reports:
A federal judge ruled Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration must reconsider previously denied petitions to ban certain antibiotics used in livestock production.
That comes after the FDA, just last week, issued a notice that it would appeal a separate judge's ruling in March which found the agency broke the law by failing to act on its own petitions from 1977 to ban several antibiotics from animal feed because of scientific evidence that the use of those drugs is a public health risk.
FoodSafetyNews.com says the FDA has held up its new voluntary guidelines on promoting the judicious use of antibiotics in food animal production as part of its defense.
The court ruled Monday that the agency still has the duty to review the safety of drugs and reconsider the merits of the petitions.
A spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council says the court order "pushes the (FDA) one step closer to meaningful action to curb the dangerous overuse of antibiotics in animal feed."
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