New Law -> Regulates Antibiotic Use On Farm Animals

The FDA should have taken action a long time ago with regulating the use of antibiotics for farm animals, especially the healthy animals that don't need them.  Of course, everytime we eat non-organic meat (sometimes I even wonder about the quality of "organic" meat in the US) we are pretty much swallowing antibiotics and most people don't even recognize this or think about it... OR they just don't care.  As the article says:  

"The over-use of these antibiotics contributes to the development of so-called ’superbugs,’ or infections that cannot be treated with existing medicines." 

I recently read that C-Diff has now developed a strain being a superbug.  When I read that 300 people a day die from C-diff... A DAY, my jaw dropped.  I thought the words after 300 would be something more like "people per month".  That sounds about right in my opinion, but things have gotten out of control in this country.  The use of drugs for everything and the medical field's lack of knowledge of NATURAL, more healthy ways of eradicating a pathogen/illness is now biting us in the ass.    

"A recent study published in the medical journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that nearly 50 per cent of grocery store meat was contaminated with antibiotic resistant pathogens, according to the Senator. Approximately 25 per cent of this meat was contaminated with pathogens that were resistant to three or more type of antibiotics." 

Mmmmm yummy!  Makes you want to have a nice steak huh?! Yeah right... ORGANIC ONLY.  The standards that certified organic follow should be the normal standards for all farms and all the food that is allowed into the grocery store for human consumption.  That 50% of meat that is full of pathogens is not even fit for an animal to consume and people are eating it everyday.      Y  U  C  K!    

New Law Introduced to Safeguard Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture - The Pig Site:

New Law Introduced to Safeguard Use of Antibiotics in Agriculture

28 June 2013

US - Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) has introduced legislation to combat antibiotic resistant superbugs that develop when antibiotics are misused in animal agriculture.

The Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2013 directs the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the use of human antibiotics in the feed and water of healthy farm animals if they jeopardize human health.

The bill requires drug companies and agriculture producers to demonstrate that antibiotics are used to treat clinically diagnosable diseases - not just to fatten livestock. The over-use of these antibiotics contributes to the development of so-called ’superbugs,’ or infections that cannot be treated with existing medicines.

“Antibiotics are the closest thing to a ‘silver bullet’ in human medicine given their ability to wipe out a wide variety of bacterial infections, but we are in danger of losing this weapon in the fight against infectious diseases,” said Senator Feinstein. “When antibiotics are fed in low doses to animals, only the strongest, most resistant bacteria are left behind to reproduce. By the time these resistant pathogens make their way from the animals into our communities, the infections can be costly to treat or untreatable all together.”

A recent study published in the medical journal, Clinical Infectious Diseases, found that nearly 50 per cent of grocery store meat was contaminated with antibiotic resistant pathogens, according to the Senator. Approximately 25 per cent of this meat was contaminated with pathogens that were resistant to three or more type of antibiotics.

“The irresponsible use of antibiotics is dangerous, and tens of thousands of people in the US die each year from antibiotic resistant infections,” Senator Feinstein added. “We must preserve the efficacy of these life-saving drugs by carefully restricting their overuse in our agriculture products.”

The Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act of 2013:

• directs the Food and Drug Administration to prohibit the use of antibiotics in ways that accelerate antibiotic resistance
• requires drug companies and producers to demonstrate they are using antibiotics to treat clinically diagnosable diseases—not just to fatten their livestock
• applies restrictions to only the limited number of antibiotics that are critical to human health. Any drug not used in human medicine is left untouched by this legislation, and
• preserves the ability of farmers to use all available antibiotics to treat sick animals. If a veterinarian identifies a sick animal, or a herd of animals that are likely to become sick, there are no restrictions on what drugs can be used.

More than 375 public, consumer and environmental health groups, including the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, support the legislation.

Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), Maria Cantwell (D-Washington), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York) and Barbara Boxer (D-California) are co-sponsors of the legislation.

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Probiotics Made w/ Genetically Modified Fillers... Are they organic??

This article was on www.naturalnews.com and to tell you the truth, I don't know what to believe.  Almost sounds like the writer is pushing the Sun Biotics brand.. I however, don't put much past the companies that manufacturer & produce the stuff we put in our body.  I try to have good faith in whatever it is I buy that the company is not corrupt.  Hard to tell though.  I guess it's a good idea to find a certified organic probiotic from now on. I 

Shock finding: Most probiotic supplements made with genetically modified flow agents, fillers:

(NaturalNews) A Natural News investigation into the probiotics industry has turned up alarming information about how probiotics are formulated and labeled. We've found that nearly all probiotics available in the U.S. market today are secretly formulated with genetically modified ingredients that are intentionally not listed on the label. The most common such ingredient is maltodextrin, a corn-derived flow agent.

Look for yourself at the probiotics available today, and you'll find something curious: Virtually none of them are certified USDA organic. Why is that? If you read the ingredients on the label, you might scratch your head and wonder why they can't make those ingredients organic. But the real story is found in the "dirty little secret" that probiotics supplement manufacturers are not listing on the labels: Maltodextrin and other fillers and flow agents that are derived from GM corn.

You are being lied to about probiotics ingredients

Here's the rock-bottom truth about probiotics: You are being LIED to about what they're made from because the FDA does not require manufacturers to list fillers and flow agents as ingredients.

Yep, you read that right: A probiotics manufacturer can add genetically modified corn maltodextrin to their formula and they are not required to disclose this on the label. While the maltodextrin will disqualify them from receiving organic certification, it doesn't stop them from using the word "natural" on their bottles.

Our Natural News investigation found that some probiotics contain as much as 30% maltodextrin in their formulas. Virtually all maltodextrin available today comes from genetically modified corn.

This means that consumers who think they're buying a healthy product to support digestion are actually buying products made from corn plants that are engineered to grow insecticide toxins right inside each and every kernel. Processing this into refined maltodextrin does not necessarily remove this toxin, meaning maltodextrin itself may be contaminated with the bt toxin that functions as an insecticide.

Check your probiotics label right now

If you take probiotics, check your label right now: Is it certified organic?

If not, it may contain maltodextrin derived from genetically modified corn, even if maltodextrin is not listed on the label!

You might be eating genetically modified corn byproducts and not even know it. Check with the manufacturer of your supplement and find out if they use maltodextrin or other corn-derived flow agents.

For the record, not all probiotics we investigated were made using maltodextrin, but the vast majority were. I'm not naming brands here because I don't care to be sued by a dozen manufacturers for blowing the whistle on their product formulation schemes that expose their customers to GMOs. But it's easy to see this for yourself: If it's not certified organic, it likely contains genetically modified ingredients.

How to really avoid GMOs in probiotics

The answer is simple: Buy certified USDA organic probiotics.

GMO-derived ingredients and flow agents like maltodextrin are NOT allowed to be used in certified organic formulations. And the USDA organic program is very stringent. I know this because I personally oversee production of certified organic products, and it's very detailed and very strict. Every batch of raw ingredients must be meticulously tracked, and manufacturers are audited once a year, on site, by USDA-approved inspectors who go through all your books and records to verify you're not cutting corners.

If you try to locate certified organic probiotics, you'll find there are virtually none in the marketplace. This should be your first clue that something's up. Red flag time. Why are there virtually no certified organic probiotics available today? Because the vast majority of probiotics supplements use genetically modified corn maltodextrin! Therefore, they are disqualified from USDA organic certification.

I take probiotics, and in my own search for certified USDA organic probiotics, I finally found the Sunbiotics brand. This, my friends, is the solution we've all been looking for.

Sunbiotics certified USDA organic chewable probiotics

This is the absolute best probiotic supplement available anywhere in the world today. Nothing compares to it, in my view, and I've been investigating the nutritional supplements industry for over a decade.

The Sunbiotics certified USDA organic chewable probiotics tablets are made with friendly bacteria strains carried on organic yacon root powder. (Yacon is a superfood from Peru.) The other ingredients are organic coconut sugar (delicious and low glycemic), organic vanilla flavor and silica. The silica is plant-derived. It's the same silica you get from the horsetail herb (a plant, not a horse's tail, obviously).

Each tablet delivers 18 billion CFUs of four probiotic strains:

• Lactobacillus acidophilus
• Bifidobacterium bifidum
• Bifidobacterium lactis
• Bifidobacterium longum

These Sunbiotics chewable tablets taste like yacon root candy! They're really delicious. Plus, there's no refrigeration required.

Click here to order Sunbiotics USDA organic probiotics from the Natural News store.

No soy, no dairy, no GMO, no wheat, no refined sugars, no corn, no nonsense!

What's especially remarkable about these Sunbiotics chewable supplements is what they do NOT contain. This is the whole point, of course: They do NOT contain soy, corn, wheat, refined sugars and so on.

No hidden ingredients whatsoever. No secret GMO maltodextrin like we found in other brands.

If you're looking for a trusted source of USDA organic probiotics that are delicious and chewable -- and even made with a superfood! -- look no further. This is it. This is now my top recommended source for probiotics, and it's what I'm taking.

The only problem with these is that they taste so good you actually want to eat them more than once a day.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/038783_probiotics_maltodextrin_GMOs.html#ixzz2IoS7PIlS


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