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Both of those uses are accomplished by subtherapeutic, that is, "smaller than treatment-sized," dosing.

Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

So let's recap -- the USDA, however grudgingly, is finally admitting the link between the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics in farm animal feed and human drug resistance; the FDA is impressed enough with the "weight of the evidence" to begin calling for changes in how antibiotics are used in farm animal production; and the CDC feels the evidence is "unequivocal and compelling," yet there are still those calling for "real science?"

USDA Admits Link Between Antibiotic Use by Big Ag and Human Health 2010

So let's recap -- the USDA, however grudgingly, is finally admitting the link between the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics in farm animal feed and human drug resistance; the FDA is impressed enough with the "weight of the evidence" to begin calling for changes in how antibiotics are used in farm animal production; and the CDC feels the evidence is "unequivocal and compelling," yet there are still those calling for "real science?"

Andrew Gunther: USDA Admits Link Between Antibiotic Use by Big Ag and Human Health 2010

Intensive livestock agriculture that uses subtherapeutic doses of antibiotics has led to the emergence of antibiotic - resistant strains of Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli bacteria.

Ecosystems and Human Well-being Synthesis~ Appendix A. Ecosystem Service Reports 2008

The perfect anti-althousian bot-post, both vapid and creepy, provoking the retort why are you still here, the, but which is ultimately pointless as the respondent is, well, let's just say, subtherapeutic.

"I'm jealous. I can't do it either. I can't cross my legs sitting in a chair like that." Ann Althouse 2008

But the fact is that these other drugs included a subtherapeutic level of Benadryl, an antihistamine, a subtherapeutic level of pseudoephedrine, a decongestant.

CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2006 2006

Although the mean daily dose of imipramine was 225 mg in the study cited above, 40% of the patients exhibited subtherapeutic blood levels.

The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993

The FDA has been trying to restrict subtherapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock since the 1970s because of the practice's clear contribution to the development of antibiotic resistance, and had always been defeated.

Wired Top Stories Maryn McKenna 2011

Both Downs-syndrome patients and their parents received radioactive iodine in a subtherapeutic dose

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Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-N. Y.) introduced a bill in 2009 to ban subtherapeutic agricultural use of human antibiotics.

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