Quoted: “If antibiotics are eliminated from animal feed and only used by veterinarians to treat infected animals, we can prevent development of additional resistance and hopefully regain the use of antibiotics,” said Carol Spiegel, professor emerita at University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
According to Dan Schaefer, UW-Madison professor and department chair of Animal Sciences, the Federal Drug Administration is already accomplishing that mission through a new veterinary feed regulation that will take effect Jan. 1, 2017.