<http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm299054.htm?source=govdelivery>

Part of the move to reduce levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria.

Previously in the U.S. a range of antibiotics have been used by factory
farms to permit optimal growth despite very crowded and less sanitary
conditions.

Similar restrictions have been imposed inother nations with no
significant increase in farm illnesses as long as the farm conditions
are prevented from being overly crowded and too unclean, especially if
imposed wounds like beak cropping end.

As per previous article shared with you there was a recent court order
to impose these restrictions to some more antibiotics since decades of
data since the 1990s clearly demonstrate that the concerns expressed
then by the FDA are accurate.

More on this is in the separate archives of the Ferret Health List.

The reason that controlling the misuse of this class of meds and
others that have been or are being banned from their chronic misuse
on farms (especially factory farms), is on topic is because some of
those infections can be passed through raw meat and raw eggs to
ferrets, and shiga toxin producing E. coli also has a toxin that can
too often survive cooking, so this actually could ultimately create
a safer situation for those who sometimes feed raw foods at times.

[Posted in FML 7389]