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Committees    • Print   • Share   • E-mail  Questions - 1999
VMAC  1. FDA’s goal is to protect the public health by ensuring
that the efficacy of human antimicrobial therapies is not
compromised due to use of antimicrobials in food animals, while
providing for the safe use of antimicrobials in food animals.
Do the concepts laid out in the document entitled, "A Proposed
Framework for Evaluating and Assuring the Human Safety of the
Microbial Effects of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs Intended for
Use in Food-Producing Animals" provide a sound scientific basis
for achieving this goal, if implemented?   2. Categorization of
Antimicrobial Drugs for Human Medicine (see Pp. 8-11 and 14 of
the Framework Document):  The agency is proposing that the
categorization of antimicrobial drugs for human medicine take
into account the usefulness of the drugs in both foodborne
disease and non-foodbor