Drug use down on the farm. (The Beat).An industry survey by the Animal Health Institute, a trade group representing agro-pharmaceutical companies, found that antibiotic antibiotic, any of a variety of substances, usually obtained from microorganisms, that inhibit the growth of or destroy certain other microorganisms. Types of Antibiotics use by U.S. livestock farmers declined in 2001 for the third straight year. Reporting the results of the survey in October 2002, the institute said 21.8 million pounds of antibiotics Antibiotics Definition Antibiotics may be informally defined as the subgroup of anti-infectives that are derived from bacterial sources and are used to treat bacterial infections. were purchased for farm animals in 2001, down from 24 million in 1999. This decline in the use of antibiotics in animal production could continue. In 2002, McDonald's, Wendy's, Tyson Foods Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork, and annually exports the largest percentage of beef , and Perdue Farms Perdue Farms is a major chicken processing company based in Salisbury, Maryland, United States. The company was founded by Arthur Perdue but became a major regional business under his son Frank Perdue. Since 1991, the company has been headed by Frank's son Jim Perdue. announced that their poultry products would not contain certain antibiotics, and bills were introduced in both houses of the U.S. Congress to limit sales of animal antibiotics that are also used for treating humans. |
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