Dr. David Wallinga at TEDx Manhattan "Raising Pigs, Raising Problems: Saying No to Antibiotics in Animal Feed"

TEDxManhattan Live Stream 10:30 am ET Jan. 21st

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We'll also keep you informed about upcoming webinars and events, and provide access to resources like the recent Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the University of Iowa College of Public Health study published in Public Library of Science’s PLoS ONE journal which documented methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in pork samples collected from retail stores across the Midwest. The study, titled “MRSA in conventional and alternative retail pork products,” represents the largest sampling of raw meat products for MRSA contamination to date in the United States.

Other resources about the overuse of antibiotcs in food animal production:

• FDA limits 1 class of antibiotics in livestock as public health groups urge gov’t to do more, from the Washington Post

• Significant Science on Antibiotic Resistance: An Annotated Bibliography, from Keep Antibiotics Working

• Letter to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health, from the CDC

• Testimony before the Subcomittee on Health, Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives: Gail R. Hansen, DVM, MPH; James Johnson, MD; Surgeon General Ali Khan

• Video: a clip of Dr. Lance B. Price, microbiolgist from the Translational Genomics Research Institute, excerpted from the film RESISTANCE (currently in production) which "explores the emerging pandemic of antibiotic-resistant infection – what's causing it, why it’s a problem, and what's being done to combat it."

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