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In January, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a ban on "extralabel" or unapproved uses of cephalosporin antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys as of April 2012. As a result, Mexico will be forced to gradually eliminate the use of this class of antimicrobial drugs in order to continue to export its products to markets like the United States, where the Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA) was signed into law in January 2011 by President Barack Obama. The FSMA law created the foreign supplier verification programme, which requires importers to provide assurances that imported products comply with safety standards and are not adulterated or misbranded. (...)

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/martha-rosenberg/antibiotics-food_b_1250049.html

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Troppi antibiotici negli allevamenti Usa:

http://www.ilfattoalimentare.it/antibiotici-allevamenti-usa-sentenza-carne.html