My good friend and colleague, Representative Louise Slaughter, to my knowledge the only microbiologist in Congress, has been raising alarm bells for quite some time about the excessive use of antibiotics in our farm animals and feedstock.
Paul Tonko: “My good friend and colleague, Representative Louise Slaughter, to my knowledge the only microbiologist in Congress, has…”
On the recordJune 13, 2016
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Tonko highlights Slaughter's concerns on antibiotic use in agriculture.
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