Success Story: Ending Antibiotics Overuse in Chicken
Chick-Fil-A today announced all of its chicken is now raised without the routine use of antibiotics, making good on a 2014 pledge. It’s the latest major fast...
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What Is the Meat Industry Hiding About its Antibiotic Use?
In a series of recent front-page stories, the New York Times has explored the U.S. livestock industries’ ongoing overuse of medically important antibiotics,...
UN Recognizes Resistance Crisis, but Soft Pedals Solutions
To keep our life-saving drugs working, we need urgent reform to the way they are used....
Livestock Antibiotic Sales See Big Drop, but Remain High
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its annual report showing how much of the antibiotics important to human medicine were sold for use in...
SF Lifts Veil of Secrecy on US Livestock Antibiotic Use
Latest Update (October 24, 2017): Today, Mayor Ed Lee signed San Francisco’s groundbreaking new law, which will require large grocery chains to report the...
Yes,1/3 of Antibiotic Prescriptions for Humans Are Unnecessary. But, Much More of the Antibiotics Used for Livestock Need Action.
The Washington Post reported this week about a CDC and Pew study that quantifies the misuse of antibiotics in human medicine. The study indicates that nearly 1/...