From: EXECSEC
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:17 PM
To: Dockets, FDA
Subject: FW: End Use of Human Antibiotics in Livestock Feed



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> From: 	Henney, Jane
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:16:30 PM
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> Subject: 	FW: End Use of Human Antibiotics in Livestock Feed
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> From: 	cedarst.gang@mindspring.com[SMTP:CEDARST.GANG@MINDSPRING.COM]
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 08, 2001 12:15:43 PM
> To: 	jhenney@oc.fda.gov
> Subject: 	End Use of Human Antibiotics in Livestock Feed
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Heather Fong
2014 Cedar St.
Berkeley, CA  94709

cedarst.gang@mindspring.com


Dear Dr. Henney,

I am writing in support of Petition 99P-0485 to urge you to ban 
medically useful antibiotics from livestock feed.

For decades, livestock producers have fed human antibiotics to 
hogs, cows and poultry to speed their growth or counteract the 
effects of crowded living conditions and poor hygiene.  In fact, 
about one third of the antibiotics manufactured in the United 
States each year ends up in animal feed.  Mounting evidence has 
proven that the overuse of antibiotics for livestock makes the 
drugs less effective for humans.

Scientists, health organizations and governments around the world 
are urging that antibiotics not be squandered on fattening 
livestock.  The World Health Organization recommended that 
antibiotics used to treat humans not be used to promote animal 
growth.  The GAO reported that "research has linked three 
diseases with antibiotic-resistant strains affecting humans to 
the use of antibiotics in animals;" and the European Union has 
already banned human antibiotics in animal feed.

I urge you not to allow an antibiotic to be used in livestock 
feed if that antibiotic is used in human medicine.  Please tell 
me how you plan to address this looming health crisi
Heather Fong