Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine, essential for treating everything from routine skin infections to strep throat, and for protecting vulnerable patients receiving chemotherapy or being treated in intensive care units. But the proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria—a result of decades of overuse in animal agriculture and human medicine combined with a lack of new drug development and innovation—has placed humanity on the precipice of what public health leaders call a “post-antibiotic” world in which even the most simple surgical procedure could have deadly consequences.
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McDonald's to Limit Antibiotics in Chicken: "Huge Public Health Win"
On March 4, 2015, McDonald's USA announced that by 2017 all the chicken it buys will have been raised without antibiotics important to human medicine. "That's a huge public health win," says Dr. Gail Hansen, a senior officer for The Pew Charitable Trusts antibiotic resistance project. Read More
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McDonald's Antibiotics Announcement Is Big Public Health News
McDonald’s USA announced March 4, 2015, that within two years it would purchase only chicken raised without medically important antibiotics. This news is a sign that major fast food restaurants are recognizing that limiting antibiotic use in food animal production is good for business and good for public health. Read More
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Top Food Companies Moving Away From Overuse of Antibiotics on Industrial Farms
Consumers across the U.S. are demanding meat and poultry raised without antibiotics—and large producers, restaurants, and other institutions are listening. Read More
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