date:Jun 30, 2014
n meat industry.
There would be no financial gain in using them, only pain.
The Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF) have said in a statement today that the E. coli resistant to fluoroquinolones observed in the recent Canberra study is definitely not the result of the use of fluoroquinolone in the poultry industry. Fluoroquinolones are not and never have been approved for use in chickens in Australia.
The resistant E. coli were most likely acquired as a result of an environmental or huma