NYT | Steps Set for Livestock Antibiotic Ban By Gardiner Harris

Will the Obama administration ban agricultural use of some antibiotics that scientists say encourage the proliferation of dangerous infections and imperil public health?

Judge Theodore H. Katz of the Southern District of New York, restarts a process that the FDA  began 35 years ago to prevent penicillin and tetracycline from losing their effectiveness in humans because of their bulk use in animal feed to promote growth in chickens, pigs and cattle.