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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, January 14, 2019)\u00a0Tell Congress to stop the Trump administration from opening the floodgates to permit widespread use of antibiotics in citrus production (grapefruits, oranges and tangerines).<\/p>\n

Despite the building national and international crisis of deadly bacterial resistance to antibiotics, this new allowance would expand on an emergency use decision the Environmental Protection Agency made in 2017. It permits up to 480,000 acres of citrus trees in Florida to be treated with more than 650,000 pounds of streptomycin per year; 23,000 citrus acres in California will likely be treated annually.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization has called bacterial resistance \u201cone of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tell your U.S. Senators and Representative to urge EPA to reject the use of antibiotics in food production, including citrus production<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The two approved antibacterial chemicals to be used as pesticides in citrus production are\u00a0streptomycin\u00a0and\u00a0oxytetracycline. Their use was permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under an emergency exemption in May, 2017 for a citrus greening disease caused by the bacterium\u00a0Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus<\/em>\u00a0(CLas) in Florida citrus crops through December of 2019.<\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency announced March 15, \u201cEPA is issuing these tolerances without notice and opportunity for public comment as provided in FFDCA [Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act] section 408(l)(6).\u201d EPA states, \u201c[T]ime-limited tolerances are established for residues of streptomycin in or on fruit, citrus, group 10-10, at 2 ppm, and the dried pulp of these commodities at 6 ppm.\u201d For oxytetracycline, EPA is allowing residues \u201cin or on all commodities of fruit, citrus, group 10-10, at 0.4 ppm.\u201d [See below; organic standards do not allow antibiotic use.] Now, EPA is moving forward with a permanent allowance of these chemicals.<\/p>\n

In addition, both the active and inert ingredients in\u00a0common herbicides advance antibiotic resistance. Learn more about the history of\u00a0Resistance and Antibiotics\u00a0by visiting Beyond Pesticides’\u00a0Antimicrobials and Antibacterials\u00a0program page. \u00a0Pose the question to policy makers:\u00a0Will we now see an \u201cAntibiotics rebellion\u201d?<\/p>\n

Beyond Pesticides, with other organizations, led a successful effort to\u00a0remove antibiotics from organic apple and pear production\u00a0because of their contribution to antibiotic resistance and the availability of alternative practices and inputs.<\/p>\n

As bacteria become resistant to the most commonly prescribed antibiotics, the results are longer-lasting infections, higher medical expenses, the need for more costly or hazardous medications, and the inability to treat life-threatening infections. The development and spread of antibiotic resistance is the inevitable effect of antibiotic use. Bacteria evolve quickly, and antibiotics provide strong selection pressure for those strains with genes for resistance. Both antibiotics proposed for expanded use are important for fighting human disease. Tetracycline is used for many common infections of the respiratory tract, sinuses, middle ear, and urinary tract, as well as for anthrax, plague, cholera, and Legionnaire’s disease, though it is used less frequently because of resistance. Streptomycin is used for tuberculosis, tularemia, plague, bacterial endocarditis, brucellosis, and other diseases, but its usefulness is limited by widespread resistance (U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2006).<\/p>\n

Exposure to antibiotics can disturb the microbiota in the gut. In addition to interfering with digestion, a disrupted gut microbiome can contribute to a whole host of \u201c21st century diseases,\u201d including diabetes, obesity, food allergies, heart disease, antibiotic-resistant infections, cancer, asthma, autism, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. Furthermore, the human immune system is largely composed of microbiota.<\/p>\n

Tell your U.S. Senators and Representative to urge EPA to reject the use of antibiotics in food production, including citrus production<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letter to Congress:<\/em><\/p>\n

Please stand up to EPA and insist that the agency does not permit the use of antibiotics, including streptomycin and oxytetracycline, in citrus production. This creates a public health threat that EPA must consider in real terms, as it relates to longer-lasting infections, higher medical expenses, the need for more costly or hazardous medications, and the inability to treat life-threatening infections. Antibiotic resistance is a real and urgent public health threat and represents an existential threat to modern civilization. Antibiotic resistance kills over 23,000 people each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In addition to the CDC, the World Health Organization has cited this escalating problem as one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBy 2050, resistance is estimated to add 10 million annual deaths globally with a cumulative cost to the world economy of US$100 trillion,\u201d said Jack Heinemann, PhD, University Canterbury\u2019s School of Biological Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n

In addition to interfering with digestion, exposure to antibiotics can disturb the gut microbiota, contributing to a whole host of \u201c21st century diseases,\u201d including diabetes, obesity, food allergies, heart disease, antibiotic-resistant infections, cancer, asthma, autism, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, and more. The human immune system is largely composed of microbiota. Treating all these diseases have real costs that must be calculated when the agency allows exposure to a pesticide, in this case an antibiotic used for non-medical uses.<\/em><\/p>\n

Note that it may not be widely appreciated that use of antibiotics on fruit trees can contribute to resistance to the antibiotic in human pathogens. The human pathogenic organisms themselves do not need to be sprayed by the antibiotic because movement of genes in bacteria is not solely \u201cvertical,\u201d that is from parent to progeny\u2014but can be \u201chorizontal\u201d\u2014 from one*\/ bacterial species to another. So, a pool of resistant soil bacteria or commensal gut bacteria can provide the genetic material for resistance in human pathogens.<\/em><\/p>\n

Consider the real cost to the American people and internationally and urge EPA to prohibit the use of streptomycin in citrus production by setting a tolerance or allowable residue of zero. Please let me know that you are able to voice your concern to EPA on this matter.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The two approved antibacterial chemicals to be used as pesticides in citrus production are\u00a0streptomycin\u00a0and\u00a0oxytetracycline. Their use was permitted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under an emergency exemption in May, 2017 for a citrus greening disease caused by the bacterium\u00a0Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus\u00a0(CLas) in Florida citrus crops through December of 2019. 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