Tag: FDA

  • Bad summer in U.S. for zoonoses

    West Nile, Hantavirus, Plague- A zoonosis is an infectious disease transmitted between species, especially from animals to humans and vice versa. New strains of influenza are usually a zoonosis having emerged from DNA mixing in geese, pigs, birds and the like, but The Wildlife News is generally  concerned with zooneses like Rocky Mountain spotted fever…

  • FDA takes steps to limit use of antibiotics in livestock

    Wants livestock industry to use antibiotics just for the health of the animals and to remove from general livestock feed Not only does the livestock industry foul waters with livestock waste, destroy public lands and habitat, and contribute the greatest to greenhouse gas emissions, it also threatens the health of humans by feeding antibiotics to…

  • At U.S. dinner tables, food may be a fraud

    Food and Drug Administration pressured to combat rising ‘food fraud’- This is a little bit marginal to what we usually discuss (well maybe not), but it is certainly irritating to the consumer. Fraud also puts pressure on the honest producer to cut corners or worse. “Organic foods” are also of no guarantee if fraud is…

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