What started out as a way to beef up the American livestock market may have exacerbated a different problem in the end.
The Wall Street Journal reports the Food and Drug Administration is taking broad measures to cut the use of antibiotics in food-producing livestock, with an eye toward reducing outbreaks of drug-resistant bacteria.
The overuse of of powerful antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs is widely believed to be a prime reason for the proliferation of drug-resistant micro-organisms.
According to the WSJ report, the FDA's guidance urges drug makers to change drug labels to allow the medicines' use only when medically necessary for livestock.
Drug makers have 90 days to say if they will comply and three years to implement changes.
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