Raising Awareness About the Spread of Resistant Superbugs
Learn about why the spread of antibiotic superbugs is an ongoing public health crisis in our latest blog and video
The FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine’s Eroding Focus on Protecting Consumers
The CVM is ignoring its mission to make sure that animal drugs are safe to meet the demands of drug makers and the giant meat industry.
The U.S. is in Need of Some Big New Year’s Resolutions When it Comes to Policies on Antibiotic Resistance
FACT has some big but very attainable goals this year for the Food and Drug Administration in order to keep us safe and healthy.
Tell the FDA to Protect People and Animals From Antibiotic Resistance
The FDA must set a limit for how long antibiotics can be used in animals and stop administering them to healthy animals.
Improving Antibiotic Use Throughout the World
Help spread the word about antibiotic resistance for World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Huge Victory for Public Health and FACT
FDA moves forward with ban on cancer-causing pig-drug carbadox.
Why CDC's One Health Framework Falls Short When It Comes to Protecting People and Animals
Join FACT in calling on the CDC address zoonotic diseases to make sure that people and animals are actually protected.
The FDA Needs to Collect Critical Data on Antibiotic Use on Farms
It is impossible to know if efforts to reduce the overuse of antibiotics are effective or creating meaningful change over time, if there is no actual data on how antibiotics are being used.
As the FDA Winds up its Five-Year Stewardship Plan, New Data Indicates the Potential for Large Increases in Antibiotic Use
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin, antibiotic use in U.S. animal agriculture may continue to climb upward.
Poisonous Pork: Carbadox Residue Violations in USDA Testing
the USDA is consistently finding carbadox residue violations even with a method that the FDA has said isn’t sensitive enough to detect all of the carcinogenic residues present.
Livestock Farm Workers are First in Line From Superbug Infections From Unhealthy Food Animals
In developing policies to address superbug infections, these vulnerable groups should be protected.
FDA Still Sluggish On The Superbug Crisis
A major cause of the spread of superbugs is the overuse of antibiotics, but the FDA, which is tasked with making sure that drugs are safe, has consistently failed to address this overuse.
Here's What You Should Know About Antibiotic Cross-Resistance and Co-Resistance
Overusing antibiotics in human and animal medicine can lead to the spread of multiple antibiotic resistant genes, making the treatment of human infection much more difficult.
Dairy can be Part of a Safe, Healthy, and Humane Diet but too Often it is Not
June is National Dairy Month. FACT works with many humane, pasture based dairy farms around the country, however this not how most dairy cows are raised.
Antibiotic Resistance Disproportionately Impacts women’s Health
As part of Women’s Health Week, FACT looks at the impact of antimicrobial resistance and how it affects women disproportionately to men.
Strong Leadership From HHS is Needed to Preserve our Antibiotics and Protect Public Health
FACT and allies have sent a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Xavier Becerra, urging his immediate action in addressing the antibiotic resistance crisis.
Starbucks, Don't Serve up Breakfast With a Side of Cancer
Join us in telling Starbucks to not poison their customers with carcinogenic pork.
Antibiotic Resistance Disproportionately Impacts Vulnerable Populations
Antibiotic resistance threatens to overturn much of the health advances of the twentieth century. While everyone is likely to get a resistant infection sooner or later, some populations are more impacted than others.
The FDA Needs to Move Forward With Protecting Medically Important Antibiotics
Join FACT in telling the FDA that we need to preserve medically important antibiotics for human and animal health.
Looks like McDonald’s New Responsible Use Targets Are Not Responsible At All
McDonald’s is leading in the wrong direction when it comes to reducing the overuse of antibiotics in its meat supply.