ELR Citation: 42 ELR 20117
No(s). 11 Civ. 3562 (S.D.N.Y. Jun 1, 2012) (Katz, M.J.)

A district court held that the FDA violated the APA and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) when it denied two petitions requesting that it withdraw approval of some uses of certain classes of antibiotics in food-producing animals. The petitions, submitted by environmental groups in 1999 and...