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90 Percent Of Antibiotics Used In Animals Aren't Assessed For 'Superbug' Risk

2014-09-15 21:17:49| Food - Topix.net

While over 400,000 Americans become ill from antibiotic-resistant bacteria in food products each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has reviewed fewer than 10 percent of antibiotics to assess their risks of creating resistant "superbugs," according to an investigation by Reuters. Despite the lack of clarity over the safety of many antibiotics used in animals, major poultry companies continue to use them.

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Perdue Says Its Hatching Chicks Are Off Antibiotics

2014-09-04 04:07:43| Food - Topix.net

Perdue Farms says it has ditched the common practice of injecting antibiotics into eggs that are just about to hatch.

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Concern about Antibiotics on the Farm

2014-08-18 17:14:38| Biotech - Topix.net

Antibiotic resistance that can turn treatable bacterial diseases into potentially deadly infections may be "the next pandemic," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Senators Ask for More FDA Antibiotics Effort

2014-08-11 18:28:00| National Hog Farmer

P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are asking the Food and Drug Administration for more information on the FDAs efforts to curb the overuse of antibiotics in food animal production. read more

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