I would recommend the use of this chemical in U.S. agriculture. It already has a
residue
tolerance established on foreign food imports into the U.S. So, why can't we use
it here if we're
already exposed to it? Also, this compound is ineffective in mammalian systems
as it is
metabolized upon ingestion or injection into breakdown byproducts that are
ineffective as
antibiotics, thus completely avoiding the development of resistance in human
bacterial pathogen
populations to develop resistance to currently available medical antibiotics. This
compound
would be extremely safe to use in U.S. agriculture and is needed in light of our
current inability to
control fire blight using streptomycin and oxytetracycline compounds. We risk
losing our ability
to provide domestically sourced fruit, that we know what compounds were used on
them. Don't
let another day go by without approving this compound.
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