WASHINGTON — Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has introduced legislation which directs the Food & Drug Administration to prohibit the use of human antibiotics in the feed and water of healthy farm animals if they jeopardize human health.
The bill — The Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2013 — requires drug companies and agriculture producers to demonstrate that antibiotics are used to treat clinically diagnosable diseases — not just to fatten livestock.
The overuse of these antibiotics contributes to the development of so-called ’superbugs,’ or infections that cannot be treated with existing medicines, the senator said.
“Antibiotics are the closest thing to a. . .
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