       The EWG report was set to be released ahead of
congressional action on reauthorizing the Animal Drug User Fee
Act (ADUFA). Many groups who support legislation to ban the use
in food animals of antibiotics that prevent or control diseases
and of ones that improve nutritional efficiency are weighing in
on ADUFA, urging Congress to limit the animal health products
available to livestock producers.  But, points out the National
Pork Producers Council, numerous peer-reviewed risk assessments,
including at least one from the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, have shown a "negligible" risk to human health
of antibiotics use in livestock and poultry production.  "Pork
producers use antibiotics in targeted ways, under a
veterinarian's supervision, to protect public health and the
health of their animals and to produce safe food," said NPPC
President Randy Spronk, a pork producer from Edgerton, Minn.
"The data don't show what groups opposed to modern food-animal
production claim; they continue to distort inform