HCR Update from Mark Sanna: A federal analysis of 30
antibiotics used in animal feed found that the majority of them were likely to
be contributing to the growing problem of bacterial infections that are
resistant to treatment in people, according to documents released Monday by a health
advocacy group. Scientists from the F.D.A. studied 30 penicillin and
tetracycline additives in animal feed. They found that 18 of them posed a high
risk of exposing humans to antibiotic-resistant bacteria through food.
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