FDA Moves On Antibiotic Resistance

I’ve posted about the huge public health threat of antibiotic resistance before.  So I count as very good news, this move by the FDA yesterday:

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and chickens raised for meat, a practice that experts say has endangered human health by fueling the growing epidemic of antibiotic resistance.

When the story of the Obama Administration is written, the lead chapters will focus on the Affordable Care Act and the challenging recovery from the Great Recession.  But I hope there is a chapter for the many actions like this one that will help save many lives.

By: Stuart Shapiro

Stuart is a professor and the Director of the Public Policy
program at the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers
University. He teaches economics and cost-benefit analysis and studies
regulation in the United States at both the federal and state levels.
Prior to coming to Rutgers, Stuart worked for five years at the Office
of Management and Budget in Washington under Presidents Clinton and
George W. Bush.