Ban On Chicken Antibiotic Upheld

An administrative law judge has upheld the Food and Drug Administration’s decision to ban an antibiotic used to treat chickens because it was making human antibiotics less effective.

The drug Baytril, manufactured by Bayer Corp., was ordered off the market in 2000 along with another poultry medication in an effort to limit the spread of antibiotic resistance that enables bacteria to become impervious to drugs they regularly encounter. The FDA targeted the two antibiotics because they are close relatives to a popular family of drugs used to treat human disease.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at March 18, 2004 09:01 AM | TrackBack