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font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gilliam, Allen
[mailto:GILLIAM@adeq.state.ar.us] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, January 11, 2010 9:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us;
pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> FW: Health Care Sector Gathering Support for Legislation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>Dr. Gressitt? you'll see
your "70% of annual U.S. antibiotics given to poultry, beef cattle
and swine stock in their feed not to treat diagnosed disease..." mentioned
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<b>From:</b> Practice Greenhealth Announcements Listserve [mailto:h2e-announcements@email.sparklist.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:15 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gilliam, Allen<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Health Care Sector Gathering Support for Legislation</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Practice Greenhealth Announcements
Listserv <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Dear PGH Supporters: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>The following press release announces the
opportunity for all health professionals to sign a petition supporting new
antibiotics legislation that would curb the use of human antibiotics in food
animals. Please use the link, <a href="http://www.protectantibiotics.org">www.protectantibiotics.org</a>,
to sign this petition if you have not done so already, and also, please pass
the opportunity along to your colleagues. It is important that we show strong
health care sector support for this important and unique opportunity to enact
measures to protect human health.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Also, if your hospital and/or health system is
willing to supporting the legislation, please contact Jamie Harvie (contact
info below) to ensure that this information is passed to the legislators.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Finally, we would appreciate it if you would pass
this press release on to any newsletters, blogs or other outlets (including
your own personal networks) to help us reach additional health care
professionals.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Thank you very much.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:<br>
January 7, 2010 <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>Contact:<br>
Jamie Harvie, 218.525.7806; <a href="mailto:harvie@isfusa.org">harvie@isfusa.org</a><br>
Eileen Secrest, 540.479-0168; <a href="mailto:esecrest@hcwh.org">esecrest@hcwh.org</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><b>Health Care Sector Supports Curb on Use of Human
Antibiotics in Food Animals<br>
</b>Health Care Without Harm Petition Supports Antibiotics Legislation <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>(Washington, DC) The health care sector is
registering strong support for bi-partisan legislation that would help end the
use of important human antibiotics in the feed and water of animals that are
not sick. Hundreds of individual health care practitioners, along with a number
of hospitals and health care systems, have registered their support for the
Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (PAMTA). This
bipartisan legislation, introduced in the House (HR 1549) and the Senate (S.
619), is intended to help curb the growing problem of antibiotic resistance,
which costs society tens of billions of dollars annually. Health Care Without
Harm, a global coalition working to make health care safer and more
sustainable, has established a petition site, <a href="http://www.protectantibiotics.org/">www.protectantibiotics.org</a>, to
centralize health care support for the legislation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>"As a practicing pediatrician, I face serious
antibiotic resistance problems every day in the care of my patients. It is not
only a critical medical problem, but a reason that health care costs are rising
so rapidly in this country. Antibiotics are far too important to the health
care in this country to misuse," stated Sean Palfrey, MD, a pediatrician
at Boston Medical Center. "Yet, this is what we are doing by routinely
feeding antibiotics to healthy animals."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>An estimated 70 percent of antibiotics used annually
in the U.S. are routinely given to poultry, beef cattle, and swine in their
feed, not to treat diagnosed disease, but to promote faster growth and for
routine disease prevention (i.e. to compensate for the heightened risk of
infection when raising animals under confined, often unhygienic conditions).
Many such feed antibiotics are identical or very nearly so to human medicines,
including penicillins, tetracyclines, erythromycins and sulfa drugs. Because
low levels of the drugs are used, bacteria evolve that have resistance to the
drugs. These resistant bacteria can be transmitted to humans through farming of
these animals, during food processing, and through improperly handled or
undercooked meats. In some countries in the European Union where feed uses of
antibiotics have been greatly curtailed, total agricultural use of antibiotics
has dropped more than 50 percent.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
estimates 60,000 Americans annually die from antibiotic-resistant infections.
The American College of Physicians estimates that $30 billion is spent on the
cumulative effects of antimicrobial resistance each year (including multiple
drug regimens, extra hospital days, additional medical care and lost
productivity). In 2003, the U.S. Institute of Medicine/ National Academy of
Science stated that "substantial efforts must be made to decrease
inappropriate overuse [of antibiotics] in animals and agriculture" and
that decreasing "antimicrobial use in human medicine alone will have little
effect on the current [antibiotic-resistant] situation." <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>"Antibiotics, a fundamental tool to protect
human health, are being put at risk to allow the production of animals for food
in appalling, unsanitary conditions," stated Jamie Harvie, chair of the
Health Care Without Harm Healthy Food Work Group. "The health care
community cannot afford to waste precious dollars desperately needed to protect
public health, especially when European animal production practices demonstrate
that antibiotic overuse is unnecessary."<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>The petition is available on the HCWH website at <a href="http://www.protectantibiotics.org/">www.protectantibiotics.org</a> . It
is open to all health care practitioners, and directs the user to fill out a
simple form. Health Care Without Harm then collects these electronic
‘signatures' and presents them to Members of Congress on behalf of the signer.
Hospitals and hospital systems can add their name to the growing list of
hospital supporters by contacting Jamie Harvie at <a href="mailto:harvie@isfusa.org">harvie@isfusa.org</a> or 218-525-7806.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>PAMTA has been endorsed by numerous medical and
public health organizations including the American Medical Association, the
American Nurses Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-left:.5in'>HCWH is an international coalition of more than 430
organizations in 52 countries, working to transform the health care industry
worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is
ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and
the environment. For more information on HCWH, see <a href="http://www.noharm.org">www.noharm.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'>HCWH has an ambitious healthy food agenda, which
includes buying fresh food locally and/or buying certified organic food;
avoiding food raised with growth hormones and antibiotics; supporting local
farmers and farming organizations; introducing farmers markets and on-site food
box programs; reducing food waste; and establishing an overarching food policy
at each health facility. More than 260 hospitals have signed the HCWH
"Healthy Food in Healthcare Pledge." Signers pledge to work toward
developing sustainable food systems in their facilities. <em>To learn more
about HCWH's work on food and other issues related to health care, visit <a href="http://www.healthyfoodinhealthcare.org">www.healthyfoodinhealthcare.org</a></em>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/HCWH_Policy_Antibiotics_Food.pdf">Policy
Statement on Antibiotics in Food</a> (pdf) <a href="http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/HCWH_Policy_Antibiotics_Food.pdf">http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/HCWH_Policy_Antibiotics_Food.pdf
</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotic_Resistance.pdf">Antibiotic
Resistance Factsheet</a> (pdf) <a href="http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotic_Resistance.pdf">http://noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotic_Resistance.pdf
</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotics_Animals_MRSA.pdf">Antibiotics,
Animal Agriculture and MRSA</a> (pdf)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="http://www.noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotics_Animals_MRSA.pdf">http://www.noharm.org/lib/downloads/food/Antibiotics_Animals_MRSA.pdf
</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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