PRO/AH/EDR> Antimicrobials, livestock – USA

Not Yet Classified — United States
This CVM [Center for Veterinary Medicine] update is the US Food and Drug Administration’s 4th progress report highlighting its recent actions to promote the judicious use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals.
In December 2013, the agency took a significant step forward in addressing antimicrobial resistance by publishing Guidance #213, which calls on animal drug sponsors of approved medically important antimicrobials administered through medicated feed or water to remove from their