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APUA: Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
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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:

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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