Addressing the public health impacts resulting from the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in our food supply
Subtitle: are we creating a "superbug"? : informational hearing of the Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture
Publisher: Senate Publications & Flags
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sacramento, CA
Language: eng
Subjects: Antibiotics in animal nutrition; Food adulteration and inspection; Food animals
Other titles: Are we creating a superbug?
Notes: Cover title.

Agenda, background materials, proceedings, and testimony from the hearing held March 17, 2009, in the State Capitol, Room 113.

Senate Publications & Flags stock no.: 1442-S.

Includes bibliographical references.

Transcript only available online.
Table of contents: title: Putting meat on the table : industrial farm animal production in America : a report of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production; title: Antibiotic resistant bacteria in animals and unnecessary human health risk / Pew Charitable Trusts; title: Antibiotic-free livestock : a profitable path from the farm to the grocery store / Pew Charitable Trusts; title: Important human medicines used on industrial animal farms / Pew Charitable Trusts; title: Does the use of antibiotics in food animals pose a risk to human health? A critical review of published data / Ian Phillips ... [et al.] (Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v. 53, p. 28-52); title: The European ban on growth-promoting antibiotics and emerging consequences for human and animal health / Mark Casewell ... [et al.] (Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, v. 52, p. 159-161); title: WHO global principles for the containment of antimicrobial resistance in animals intended for food : report of a WHO Consultation with the participation of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Office International des Epizooties; title: Review: Withdrawal of growth-promoting antibiotics in Europe and its effects in relation to human health / Ian Phillips (International journal of antimicrobial agents 30 (2007), p. 101-107); title: Growth promoting antibiotics in food animal production : an economic analysis / Jay P. Graham, John J. Boland, Ellen Silbergeld (Public health reports, Jan./Feb. 2007, v. 122; p. 79-87); title: Fact sheet: Antibiotic use : science and politics; title: Statement by the Animal Agriculture Alliance Coalition on Antimicrobial Resistance; title: Pathogens in our pork / Nicholas D. Kristof (Op-ed column, N.Y. times, Mar. 15, 2009); title: Antibiotic use in U.S. livestock production : summary / United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service ...