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Antibiotics in Agriculture:
Human Health Impact
The APUA "FAAIR Report"
Antimicrobial agents are used widely in agriculture, raising concerns that such practices contribute to the development and spread of antimicrobial resistance. The purpose of the FAAIR (Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and Their Impact on Resistance) project was to bring scientific evidence to the policy debate on antimicrobial use in agriculture and the risk it poses to human, animal, and ecological health.
To meet this objective, APUA convened a Scientific Advisory Panel of experts from a variety of fields in research and medicine. Panel members analyzed relevant data from the scientific literature and developed consensus conclusions and policy recommendations.
The APUA "FAAIR Report," entitled The Need to Improve Antimicrobial Use in Agriculture: Ecological and Human Health Effects, was published as a Supplement to the
1 June 2002 edition of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases (Vol 34, Supplement3). See also:
In
2005 the FAAIR Report was entered into evidence in the US
Food and Drug Administration deliberations to ban the use
of enrofoxacin in poultry (see Ecology
News for more information).
FAAIR
Scientific Advisory Panel
Michael
Barza, M.D. (co-chair), Professor, Tufts University
School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Director of Medicine, Carney
Hospital, Boston, MA
Sherwood Gorbach, M.D. (co-chair), Professor, Tufts
University School of Medicine, Boston, MA; Attending Physician,
New England Medical Center, Boston, MA
John Bailar, III, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus,
Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago,
IL
Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Ph.D., Research Leader-- Antimicrobial
Resistance Research Unit, USDA-ARS-Richard B. Russell Agricultural
Research Center, Athens, GA
Scott McEwen, D.V.M., D.V.Sc., Diplomate ACVP, Professor,
Department of Population Medicine, University of Guelph,
Guelph, Ontario
Thomas F. O’Brien, M.D., Medical Director of Microbiology,
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Associate Professor
of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Anne O. Summers, Ph.D., Professor, Department of
Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Morton Swartz, M.D., Professor, Harvard Medical School,
Boston, MA; Chief of Jackson Firm of the Medical Service,
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Anne Vidaver, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Plant
Pathology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
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More on antibiotic use in agriculture
CVM Guidance
for Industry: Evaluating the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regard to their Microbiological Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern,
Statement from APUA concerning early drafts
New Eng J Med editorial and articles, 10/18/01
AVMA Guidelines for
Judicious Therapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in animals (1998)
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