29 Million Pounds Of Antibiotics Used In Food Animal Production In 2009, FDA Estimates

29 MILLION Pounds Of Antibiotics Given To Farm Animals In 2009

I was interested to read FoodSafetyNews yesterday morning and learn about the FDA's new count of the number and pounds of antibiotics used to promote the growth of farm animals used as food: 29 million pounds last year alone.

Because this is the first time the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine has produced such a count, it is not possible to say whether the numbers are going up or down. But the agency is now requiring meat producers to report on antibiotic use so we now have a baseline for measuring progress.

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