FDA targets antibiotics in meat0
- Environmental Well-Being
- December 23, 2013
For decades, animals (such as cows, pigs, chickens, and turkeys) have been fed antibiotics to make them fatter faster. But many health experts have worried all these years about what those antibiotics do to humans when we ingest them, since this ingestion can lead to future antibiotic-resistant infections. Finally, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is cracking down and asking that antibiotics no longer be included in animal feed.
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