U.S. court upholds FDA animal feed policy despite health concern

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U.S. court upholds FDA animal feed policy despite health concern

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-court-upholds-fda-animal-feed-policy-despite-170816287.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/UKB8WSQsFYhxGUGGNG9FNw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-07-24T170816Z_1_LYNXMPEA6N0U1_RTROPTP_2_CHINA-PHARMACEUTICALS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring" align="left" title="A view shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) headquarters in Silver Spring" border="0" /></a>By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A divided federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a U.S. Food and Drug Administration policy allowing the use of various antibiotics in animal feed, even if such use might endanger the public health. Reversing a lower court ruling, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said the FDA was empowered to reject two citizen challenges to its policy, which discourages but does not ban the use of penicillin and some tetracyclines in feed for chickens, cows and pigs, even if they are not sick. They said the FDA should have followed through on its 1977 proposal to ban the feed entirely. The FDA has long since promoted voluntary limits on animal feed containing the antibiotics.</p><br clear="all"/>

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