date:May 01, 2013
y to be from farm-animal use, and two other drug classes (penicillin and cephalosporin) are used infrequently in animal agriculture. The fourth drug class tested by Consumer Reports, tetracycline, is used in animal agriculture, but is a largely insignificant antibiotic in human medicine, comprising only four percent of all antibiotics prescribed by physicians.
Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) both issued statements asking for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to invest