Advocacy Group Flunks White House In Reducing Livestock Antibiotic Use

Ahead of the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Tuesday (Sept. 29), Keep Antibiotics Working, a group dedicated to fighting antibiotic resistance, issued a report card giving the Obama Administration a failing grade in several areas such as setting hard targets to reduce antibiotic use in livestock. The administration also received failing grades in such activities as ending the use of human antibiotics for growth promotion, limiting routine antibiotic use for disease prevention and obtaining...