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The Meat Industry's Appetite for Antibiotics Could Make Everyone Sick

Posted by Heather Moore at 7:29 AM | Permalink | No Comments

Last March, a federal court ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should start restricting the use of certain growth-promoting antibiotics in farmed animals—unless the drug manufacturers could prove that the antibiotics wouldn't contribute to the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that have been appearing in more and more health-care facilities. The FDA then developed some "voluntary guidelines" …

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