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Food and Drug Administration Antibiotic Task Force Report¹

In April of 1970 the Food and Drug Administration established a task force to study the implications from the use of antibiotics in animal feeds to human and animal health. The task force report was released by Commissioner Edwards on January 31, 1972. The principal recommendations call on FDA to restrict some antibiotics for use by veterinarians only if safety and effectiveness cannot be proven. The complete recommendations of the task force are as follows:

Recommendations

Research. The Task Force recommends that money be allocated to undertake research in the following areas:

1. The etiology and pathogenesis of animal diseases such as shipping fever, stress, and liver abscesses wherein antibiotics are used but their role is unclear.
   
2. The safety for man and the intended species of the use of antimicrobials, that is, the morbidity and mortality; epidemiology including microbiology of isolates and the transmission of bacteria from animals to animals and to man; drugs that will eliminate E-f actors; residues including degradation products of antimicrobials which produce allergy; and the ecology of the bacterial flora of animals and the duration of shedding of certain species of bacteria.
   

¹ Report from the Inter-Society Drugs and Chemicals Committee—A. Donald Rankin, ASAS; William Stadelman, PSA; and C. A. Lassiter, ADSA, Chairman