Comments on: Groups File Petition to FDA to Ban Triclosan for Non-Medical Uses http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2081 News on pesticide science, policy and activism Thu, 16 May 2013 16:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: David J. Parker http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2081#comment-84827 David J. Parker Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:26:07 +0000 http://www.beyondpesticides.org/dailynewsblog/?p=2081#comment-84827 There has to be a concerted effort to eliminate the gross overuse of antibiotics if we hope to avert mutations being created which will be immune to treatment.
The worst example is the irresponsible and totally unnecessary use of antibiotics in industrial animal rearing needed due to the confined operations under which the animals are kept.

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