Dec 16, 2013

F.D.A. Restricts Antibiotics Use for Livestock to slow growing epidemic of antibiotic resistance.

NYTimesWASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday put in place a major new policy to phase out the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in cows, pigs and chickens raised for meat, a practice that experts say has endangered human health by fueling the growing epidemic of antibiotic resistance.