WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an order that prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys, effective April 5, 2012.
The FDA said it is taking this action to preserve the effectiveness of cephalosporin drugs for treating disease in humans. Prohibiting these uses is intended to reduce the risk of cephalosporin resistance in certain bacterial pathogens.
The National Chicken Council, in a statement by Tom Super, NCC vice president of communications, said it shares the concerns of others that FDA’s rule on extralabel drug use will. . .
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