{"id":5145,"date":"2011-09-08T21:19:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2019-03-24T00:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T06:46:01","slug":"medical-consumer-groups-urge-congress-to-act-on-antibiotic-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/industry\/medical-consumer-groups-urge-congress-to-act-on-antibiotic-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical, consumer groups urge Congress to act on antibiotic resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A coalition of medical and consumer advocacy groups is urging lawmakers to curtail the use of antibiotics in farm animals as federal regulators prepare to propose new restrictions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A dozen groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases,\u00a0<a href=\"\/images\/stories\/blogs\/healthwatch\/antibioticsletter.pdf\"><strong>wrote<\/strong><\/a> to lawmakers on Tuesday to bemoan the &#8220;misinformation and confusion&#8221; about the impact farm use of antibiotics can have on human health. The groups will also run an\u00a0<a href=\"\/images\/stories\/blogs\/healthwatch\/antibioticsad.pdf\"><strong>ad<\/strong><\/a> in congressional newspapers on Wednesday urging lawmakers to allow new restrictions.<a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/healthwatch\/food-safety\/179641-medical-consumer-groups-urge-congress-to-act-on-antibiotic-resistance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coalition of medical and consumer advocacy groups is urging lawmakers to curtail the use of antibiotics in farm animals as federal regulators prepare to propose new restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14,31,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-industry","category-veterinary-medicine","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8966,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/8966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}