From: HMM33050@mindspring.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:37 PM
To: EXECSEC
Subject: agricultural antibiotics

                                                                                                284 Carolina Meadows Villa
Chapel Hill , NC 27514-8529
January 9, 2001
 
Jane Henney
Executive Secretary, FDA
 
Hon.  Ms. Henney,
    I am alarmed by the quantities of antibiotics being fed to healthy farm animals, and/or stored or wasted, all of which increase development of antibiotic resistance in germs.  Antibiotics for needed uses  are becoming ineffective.
    Estimates of these quantities are variable and inaccurate.  We need an accurate system for reporting  
the quantities used on both healthy (just to speed growth) and unhealthy (safe to eat?) animals. Please make development of such a reporting system a top priority.
                                                                                        Thank you, 
                                                                                                Miriam R.Murdock