date:May 14, 2012
cluding some over .5 parts per million (ppm).
These test results were exceedingly important because they disproved the belief that antibiotic use in ethanol production was benign vis--vis public health, argues IATP in the paper. This study showed the opposite: Antibiotic use in ethanol production increases the load of nontherapeutic antibiotics being fed to livestock, which the FDA itself acknowledges is a public health threat needing to be addressed.
In 2010, FDA conducted another round of