dr. sharfstein, have you seen anything quite like this? to you think those should be part of the labeling of water? >> i would be highly skeptical. >> but we have seen an dr. houlihan and others plan about fantastical claims, are the legal? can they do and underneath this misbranding or false advertising? >> we definitely look in this case in general misbranding pertains to other people are claiming to treat disease, that is the big one or put our priority and people saying you drink this water and it cures for cancer and people might not pursue cancer treatment. >> so like mr. record: this brings had ever miraculous recovery and live 22 years and it is good for the rich and kidney diseases -- is that? >> the one with the historical fable, i done of that is exactly -- but the other one where you said use in clinical data that when i think we would like to see. that to mr. rice as pretty worth are evaluating. and often die with that but i think that definitely fall into something we would want to look closely at. >> how about the makers of a

dr. sharfstein maker, have taken action on the issue on the production. we simply cannot continue to produce food animals. we need to reduce that use and we can. because both of the drugs used by food producers are not used to treat sick animals, but to increase or for routine disease prevention. or both. those can be accomplished by other ways, including better management and its time we get about that process. as has been said, the resistant bacteria generated in food animals have lots of ways of moving to humans. most prominently, but not solely on food. after a result, the bacteria are connected to many kinds of disease. not just the foodborne illness like salmonella salmonella, an example. but also systemic lung infection, urinary tract infection, and most recently. we have delayed on this mission for too long. key antibiotics working on the case for decades now. with little or no results for our efforts. but this story i think is the same for most of the food safety issues. for decades public health advocates have their vested interest. it is time t

dr. joshua sharfstein in your testimony i found a very compelling because it really does tread a fine linehe preventative diseases and the annual population grew redo ourselves more harm the process. in your testimony outlined how prevention can sometimes make things worse as in the case of using antimicrobial to five respiratory infections. please elaborate on how dangerous it can be for animal producers to assume 2. with antibiotics eight can be counterproductive to humans and animals. >> i think prevention is obviously an area that needs a lot of attention how to craft policy rather by legislation regulation i think clearly there are situations where you can prevent illness by giving medicine. for example, and baltimore as the health commissioner we had a case of meningitis we would give medicine to all the people who were in close contact. we had a teacher who had a case and we tracked down all of the kids they were not sick but we give them medication. in that case, and pediatrics for example, there is strong evidence for the use of medicine in that situation other than those or left