MINNEAPOLIS — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has denied a pair of long-pending petitions from consumer and other groups to limit the use of several antibiotics in farm animals, saying a voluntary approach the agency proposed last year will lead to more "judicious use" of the drugs in agriculture.
According to a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy (CIDRAP), the petitions were filed in 1999 and 2005 by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) along with several environmental and medical organizations. They asked the FDA to cancel its approval of the. . .
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