A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is asking the Food and Drug Administration to review the use of animal feed additives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The European Union and Brazil are reviewing this option, but the United States has not taken that step. Without this tool, the U.S. dairy and beef industries are left with only conventional management strategies to reduce methane emissions. Fourteen senators have signed off on the letter to FDA, including Minnesota Senators Klobuchar and Smith.
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