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S 619 111th Congress Senate Health Drug safety, medical device, and laboratory regulation Livestock Veterinary medicine and animal diseases

Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009

Introduced: March 17, 2009 See on congress.gov
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Became law
Mar 17, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Mar 17, 2009
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to deny an application for a new animal drug that is a critical antimicrobial animal drug unless the applicant demonstrates that there is a reasonably certainty of no harm to human health due to the development of antimicrobial resistance attributable to the nontherapeutic use of the drug. Defines "critical antimicrobial animal drug" as a drug intended for use in food-producing animals that contains specified antibiotics or other drugs used in humans to treat or prevent disease or infection caused by microorganisms.

Requires the Secretary to withdraw approval of a nontherapeutic use of such drugs in food-producing animals two years after the date of enactment of this Act unless certain safety requirements are met.

What's happening now March 17, 2009

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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