FDA to require prescription for livestock antibiotics - Page 2

Thanks Yknot. My luck the cops would think I'm setting up a meth lab or something and get busted! LOL

That is interesting, if it is that old how did it become resistant?

What other way is there to make penicillin?

The routine feeding of antibiotics to livestock needs to end.  The FDA has been promising to end this practice since the 1970s but repeatedly has cowtowed to large argribusiness and refused to force the issue.  This is done largely to fatten up livestock for market, which makes for a less healthy end product for humans AND ends up creating "superbugs."  We hear a lot about not using antibiotics inappropriately to treat illnesses, but the overwhelming majority of antibiotics used in this country are fed to livestock.  So this is a VERY good move, and many feel that it's not even strong enough.  No doubt large agribusiness will find their way around it.  For us small producers, it should mean next to nothing... however, the way the FDA has historically done things, they end up catching the small guy in the regulations meant for the big guys, while the big guys find ways around it.  *sigh*  Don't even get me started on the FDA.  I'm not a fan.
 

The FDA is about as useful at NATO...everything they touch they screw up and when they stick their noses into something it is a FUBAR situation.  Why?  Kickbacks, idiots, money, greed, power and influence and bog business.

Name one thing they do right?  They blame backyard flocks for salmonella, they think we are too stupid to choose our own multi-vitamins and there is a list two miles long I could post but refuse to type because frankly the morons are not worth it.

I have penicllin here because I have animals...animals find ways to injure themselves, chickens get bumblefoot, dogs, cats, horses and etc will find the one rusty nail on 5 acres to step on, rub against or run into  blah blah blah  There is no way I am paying a $50 office visit for the vet to look at my chicken and say "It is a chicken, it has a wound"  and then charge me another 100.00 to clean the wound, put in three or 4 sutures and inject it with penicillin....I can do that here at home thanks.  I use the vet when I need his expertise, cleaning, sewing and giving a shot does not require his college education  at least not for this country girl.   So the FDA can kiss my tan backside!

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Originally Posted by Cetawin 

The FDA is about as useful at NATO...everything they touch they screw up and when they stick their noses into something it is a FUBAR situation.  Why?  Kickbacks, idiots, money, greed, power and influence and bog business.

 

Name one thing they do right?  They blame backyard flocks for salmonella, they think we are too stupid to choose our own multi-vitamins and there is a list two miles long I could post but refuse to type because frankly the morons are not worth it.

 

I have penicllin here because I have animals...animals find ways to injure themselves, chickens get bumblefoot, dogs, cats, horses and etc will find the one rusty nail on 5 acres to step on, rub against or run into  blah blah blah  There is no way I am paying a $50 office visit for the vet to look at my chicken and say "It is a chicken, it has a wound"  and then charge me another 100.00 to clean the wound, put in three or 4 sutures and inject it with penicillin....I can do that here at home thanks.  I use the vet when I need his expertise, cleaning, sewing and giving a shot does not require his college education  at least not for this country girl.   So the FDA can kiss my tan backside!

x2 Well said.

What I read was that the FDA is recommending that there be a voluntary effort to pull back from using antibiotics.

The editorial in my paper, taken from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that guidance was released last week

1) "recommending - but not requiring" the gradual stoppage of antibiotic use;

2) asking drug manufacturers to voluntarily change package labels to say that antibiotics should not be used to improve production and

3) that the agency prublished a draft text of a proposed regulation"aimed at helping veterinarians accommodate their increased (voluntary) oversight responsibilities for the use of the antibiotics". No idea what that means - is that where you're getting the idea of requiring a prescription?

They are recommending that drug manufactures are to label " prescription only " so we can't buy without a vet.