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The FDA is fixin’ to approve the extremely potent drug cefquinome for use on cattle—a step that risks creating diseases that are resistant to medicine’s most powerful antibiotics. Thirteen health groups, including the AMA, plus the FDA advisory board say the decision is needlessly dangerous. But the FDA is following a new “guidance document” telling it to weight public health concerns against pharma concerns less strongly than it has in the past.
Source: More regulatory hijinks. – By Barron YoungSmith – Slate Magazine
