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Katie Couric Failed in Effort to Move Antibiotic Use in Livestock Onto the Front Burner as a Washington Policy Priority
Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:00:59 CDT
The battle over antibiotics is currently not on the front burner in the US Congress- and Colin Woodall says that the recent Katie Couric treatment of antibiotics in the CBS Evening News had little impact in Washington to move it into the limelight because the two segments were not even seen in the Washington, DC market because of a snowstorm the days those segments were aired on the evening newscasts.
Woodall says that the livestock industry has had a lot of success in recent weeks in having seminars for Congressional staffers in Washington that they have called Antibiotics 101- pointing out that meat reaching the consumer have no traces of antibiotics in them because of withdrawal times, and that antibiotics that are approved for use in livestock face as rigorous or even more rigorous approval process than antibiotics approved for human use. He says these seminars have been well attended and he believes have been helpful in offsetting negative comments from those who are seeking more restrictions on antibiotic use in animal agriculture.
Today's Beef Buzz is the third in a series of three Beef Buzz shows with Colin Woodall on a variety of subjects- click here for the March 24th report with the NCBA lobbyist on the issue of the Death Tax and if there will be a permanent fix put in place here in 2 The Thursday, March 25th Beef Buzz with Colin Woodall was about efforts by several US Senators to push the US and Japanese governments closer to widening market access for US beef into Japan, as well as a look at Animal ID- Click here for that Beef Buzz.
The Beef Buzz is a regular feature heard on radio stations around the state on the Radio Oklahoma Network- but is also a regular audio feature found on this website as well. Click on the listen bar below for today's show- and check out our archives for older Beef Buzz shows covering the gamut of the beef cattle industry today.
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