date:Jun 25, 2012
Many US grocery stores now offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes even at below-average prices for all meats of that type, but shoppers must become savvy about reading labelling to get products that live up to no antibiotics administered-type claims, according to new research by Consumer Reports, a research and testing organisation.
The declining effectiveness of antibiotics has become a national public-health crisis, leading doctors and scientists to