The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was not required to conduct hearings on whether to withdraw approval for the use of penicillin and tetracyclines in animal feed, a divided federal appellate panel ruled Thursday.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit dealt a blow to public interest groups that oppose antibiotics in animal feed, used to make animals grow faster on less food, because they have been linked to human resistance to the drugs. The groups claimed the FDA failed to follow its own rules and procedures and broke a promise to review the science and hold hearings on the issue.
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