Veterinary use of antibiotics
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Documents Reveal How Poultry Firms Systematically Feed Antibiotics To Flocks
Brian Grow, P.J. Huffstutter and Michael Erman | Reuters | September 15, 2014
Major U.S. poultry firms are administering antibiotics to their flocks far more pervasively than regulators realize, posing a potential risk to human health. Internal records examined by Reuters reveal that some of the nation’s largest poultry producers routinely feed chickens an array of antibiotics – not just when sickness strikes, but as a standard practice over most of the birds’ lives...
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Farmers Giving Livestock More Antibiotics Despite Superbug Threat
Josh Hicks | The Washington Post | October 7, 2014
The sale of antibiotics for livestock increased 16 percent from 2009 to 2012 in a trend that has troubling implications for resistance in humans, according to the Food and Drug Administration...
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