article_snippet: A key goal is to slow the growth and spread of superbugs by reducing the use of antibiotics when antibiotics aren't needed.
article_snippet: Plan calls for a 50% reduction in inappropriate antibiotic use in doctor's offices and a 20% reduction in hospital use by 2020.
article_snippet: Another part of the plan pledges to eliminate the widespread use of antibiotics to boost the growth of animals raised for food.
article_snippet: Another part of the plan will also phase in oversight by veterinarians for other uses of antibiotics in feed and water.
article_snippet: The problem we have with the plan is that the plan only removes the growth claims from the label," said senior analyst Steve Roach at Keep Antibiotics Working.
article_snippet: What we hoped for in the plan was a commitment from FDA to identify which antibiotic uses other than growth promotion need to be changed.
article_snippet: "With 80% of the antibiotics produced in the United States being used in agriculture mostly for prevention," said Louise Slaughter, D-New York, who has an alternate proposal in front of Congress, "any meaningful solution to the looming antibiotic resistance crisis must begin with limits on the farm.
highlights_snippet: Patient use of unnecessary antibiotics will be curtailed .