date:May 19, 2015
production, which will protect both human and animal health in the long run.
The country's biggest chicken producer Tyson Foods has become the first company in the country to adopt the standard. Recently, Tyson also announced that it will aim to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks completely by the end of September 2017.
Pew's Antibiotic Resistance Project's senior officer Gail Hansen said: This new standard will guide producers who want to use antibiotics in the most li