Bird Flu: Why We Need Urgent Action to Prevent a Public Health Crisis
Learn about the alarming spread of H5N1 bird flu from birds to mammals and help us take action to stop its potential public health risk.
Voting With Your Dollars Only Works if Product Labels are Truthful
The USDA found widespread fraud in meat labeled "raised without antibiotics" but isn't requiring businesses to test for antibiotics. Join us in telling the USDA to require testing.
Antibiotic Resistance: An Unyielding Crisis and the Urgent Need for Reform
New data from the FDA shows that many antibiotic resistance trends are not improving as hoped.
Senator Booker Calls Out The FDA for Backsliding on Fighting Superbugs
Senator Booker warns FDA's new guidelines on antimicrobial resistance threatens public health.
Antibiotics and Meat Production: A Growing Public Health Crisis
Check out FACT’s latest video about antibiotic resistance and the policy changes necessary to slow the spread of deadly antibiotic-resistant germs.
Despite FDA Prohibition, U.S. Swine Producers Continue Using Medically Important Antibiotics for Growth Years Later.
New data shows that pig operations report feeding medically important antibiotics to pigs to make them grow faster, despite the FDA prohibiting this practice.
Bird Flu Found in One in Five Samples of Milk
The virus is killed by pasteurization but the people at greatest risk are farm and slaughter plant workers.
Avian Flu and Giant Dairies Moving us Ever Closer to a New Pandemic
Deadly bird flu is just one more problem of the current model of animal agriculture and in this case is potentially setting us up for an outbreak that could kill millions.
FACT Joins Lawsuit Against the FDA
For failure to respond to petitions to ban the growth promoter Ractopamine.
Agriculture Needs to Change to Address the Climate Crisis
But too much of the effort just reinforces the unhealthy industrial animal agriculture system.
Raising Awareness About the Spread of Resistant Superbugs
Learn about why the spread of antibiotic superbugs is an ongoing public health crisis in our latest blog and video
The FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine’s Eroding Focus on Protecting Consumers
The CVM is ignoring its mission to make sure that animal drugs are safe to meet the demands of drug makers and the giant meat industry.
The U.S. is in Need of Some Big New Year’s Resolutions When it Comes to Policies on Antibiotic Resistance
FACT has some big but very attainable goals this year for the Food and Drug Administration in order to keep us safe and healthy.
Tell the FDA to Protect People and Animals From Antibiotic Resistance
The FDA must set a limit for how long antibiotics can be used in animals and stop administering them to healthy animals.
Improving Antibiotic Use Throughout the World
Help spread the word about antibiotic resistance for World Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Huge Victory for Public Health and FACT
FDA moves forward with ban on cancer-causing pig-drug carbadox.
Why CDC's One Health Framework Falls Short When It Comes to Protecting People and Animals
Join FACT in calling on the CDC address zoonotic diseases to make sure that people and animals are actually protected.
The FDA Needs to Collect Critical Data on Antibiotic Use on Farms
It is impossible to know if efforts to reduce the overuse of antibiotics are effective or creating meaningful change over time, if there is no actual data on how antibiotics are being used.
As the FDA Winds up its Five-Year Stewardship Plan, New Data Indicates the Potential for Large Increases in Antibiotic Use
As we approach the 100th anniversary of the discovery of penicillin, antibiotic use in U.S. animal agriculture may continue to climb upward.
Poisonous Pork: Carbadox Residue Violations in USDA Testing
the USDA is consistently finding carbadox residue violations even with a method that the FDA has said isn’t sensitive enough to detect all of the carcinogenic residues present.