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Public interest organization web sites

Keep Antibiotics Working (KAW)
UCS is a leading member of this coalition of health, environmental, consumer, sustainable agriculture, humane, and other advocacy groups. The coalition works to mobilize the medical community, opinion leaders, grassroots organizations, businesses and Congress to take action and support legislation to reduce antibiotic use in animal agriculture.

KAW members include:
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Environmental Defense
Food Animal Concerns Trust
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
Humane Society of the United States
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
National Catholic Rural Life Conference
Natural Resources Defense Council
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Safe Tables Our Priority (S.T.O.P.)
Sierra Club
Waterkeeper Alliance


Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics
Nonprofit organization that conducts international networking, educational, and research activities; promotes the appropriate human and animal use of antibiotics; and links to ROAR (Reservoirs of Antibiotic Resistance Network), a project to investigate the role of commensal bacteria in emergence of antibiotic resistance.

Animal Production Systems
Created by Dr. Charles Benbrook, consultant and co-author of Hogging It!, this site is a resource for information regarding food animal production systems. The site specifically addresses the impact of antimicrobial use on the environment, public health, and economy; CAFOs and manure management; and rewarding innovation in animal production. Provides access to information on state, federal, local and international laws, regulations, and policies regarding antimicrobial use and animal food systems.

Hog Watch
Documents status of hog farms and opposition efforts in North Carolina, including site maps and up-to-the-minute information on manure production from NC hog farms. Sponsored by Environmental Defense.

Humane Farming Association
Dedicated to protecting farm animals from cruelty and abuse, the environment from the impacts of industrialized animal agriculture, and the public from the dangerous use of antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals used in factory farming.

Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
Type in your zip code to get a report on animal waste in your region based on information from the USDA and from the agriculture community.

Sierra Club Campaign to Protect America's Water from Factory Farm Pollution
One of four Sierra Club national priority campaigns. Provides fact sheets about factory farming and activist reports.

Wisconsin Stewardship Network
A bipartisan group of environmental, conservation and sporting groups from around the state working together to restore Wisconsin's conservation tradition; factory farm page provides information on Wisconsin industrial farming information and links to other resources.


Government web sites

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Bacterial & Mycotic Diseases
Deals with infectious bacterial disease and antibiotic resistance; includes links to the CDC's key programs, including food safety, disease surveillance, and antibiotic resistance.

Food and Drug Administration - Center for Veterinary Medicine
Provides information on CVM's current regulatory activities with antibiotics used in animal agriculture and link to the Green Book, the FDA approved animal drug list.

Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology Program
Describes USGS's national reconnaissance project to collect baseline information of emerging contaminants (including human and veterinary drugs) in U.S. streams.

National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Service (NARMS)
A collaborative effort among the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Through regular sampling of retail meats, healthy farm animals, and isolates from human and veterinary medicine, NARMS tracks the level of antibiotic resistance among various disease-causing bacteria, and provides this information to doctors and veterinarians.

National Institutes of Health - Foodborne Diseases
Information about the incidence and cost of foodborne diseases in the United States, specifically botulism, campylobacteriosis, E. coli infection, salmonellosis, and shigellosis.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - Center for Animal Health Monitoring
Distributes data on animal health from national studies and industry sources, including data on antibiotic use and projects to reduce the evolution of drug resistance.

World Health Organization
An affiliate of the United Nations working to improve world health; includes information and technical reports on infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance, and food safety. The WHO report Impacts of Antimicrobial Growth Promoter Termination in Denmark (pdf) describes how a ban on the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals has dramatically reduced the reservoir of resistant bacteria in food animals in Denmark.


Industry web sites

Animal Health Institute
Trade association representing companies that manufacture drugs for the pet and farm animal industries. A leading proponent for the continued use of antibiotics in livestock production.