From: Tara Diana Cushing [dcushing@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:43 PM
To: EXECSEC
Subject: Antibiotics

Dear Dr. Henney:
    I am deeply concerned about the use of antibiotics in agriculture,
and am particularly concerned that so little data is available about
these practices, which of course, greatly hampers efforts to determine
their effects and risks. I urge you to collect and report data on the
quantity of
antibiotics used in U.S. agriculture as soon as it can be accomplished;
this is a matter of vital importance to the health of US citizens.

Sincerely,
Diana C. Cushing, PhD