1.   Bayer disputes arguments that growing resistance to these antibiotics is tied to their animal antibiotic.

2.   Congress and the Food and Drug Administration need to curtail the use of animal antibiotics that are related to human medicines.

3.   For the last three years, the European Union has tightly regulated animal antibiotics related to those used in human medicine, which are called medically important.

4.   Mellon and other leading opponents of animal antibiotics said they were unaware of the new farming practices.

5.   The company simulated the compound and developed it into the first-ever animal derived antibiotic.

6.   Those products include corn, Viagra, cosmetics, animal antibiotics, pacemakers, breast implants and CD players.