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Here's How","publishDate":1554231627,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>If you ate a hamburger today, or a high-priced steak, chances are it came from an animal that was fed an antibiotic during the last few months of its life.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=\"news_11719669,bayareabites_131706\"]\u003cbr>\nThis is one of the most controversial uses of antibiotics in the entire food industry. There's growing pressure on the beef industry to stop doing this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to know how hard that would be. My questions eventually led me to \u003ca href=\"http://zwtranch.com/pcf_nsb.php\">Phelps County Feeders\u003c/a>, a cattle feedlot near Kearney, Neb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and wet on the day I visited. The weather had been bad for weeks. Joe Klute, the feedlot's co-owner, was unhappy because he knew his 15,000 cattle were miserable, too. And miserable cattle don't gain weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you spend all this time and energy and effort and money to put weight on them that you hope to get paid [for], and now it's all going to be gone,\" he said. \"Because of the weather stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We head out to look at the raw ingredients of beef-making: giant bales of hay; piles of chopped up, fermented corn stalks and leaves called silage; steaming, flattened kernels of corn. \"They get corn flakes for breakfast, just like we do,\" he says with a grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/4_img_8421.cr2_enl-30f48eba3d80967d047f0d466d3cdee8b4265b67-e1554231360563.jpg\" alt=\"Steamed, flattened corn is fed to cattle to make them gain weight quickly. This diet can also lead to liver abscesses\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1175\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steamed, flattened corn is fed to cattle to make them gain weight quickly. This diet can also lead to liver abscesses \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there are the micro-ingredients, like vitamins. They get dissolved in water and mixed into the truckloads of corn and hay. \"On a 20,000-pound load, those micro-ingredients are going to be less than a pound,\" Klute says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these micro-ingredients is an antibiotic called tylosin. It's in there because when cattle eat a high-calorie diet, with lots of grain — which they do in feedlots, to fatten them up quickly during the last four to six months of their life — many will develop abscesses on the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vet.k-state.edu/education/dmp/faculty-staff/faculty/nagaraja/\">T. G. Nagaraja\u003c/a>, at Kansas State University, has spent most of his life studying this process. Fermenting grain produces acid in the bovine stomach that's called the rumen, Nagaraja explains. When there's lots of it, the acids can damage the rumen wall. This lets bacteria escape into the bloodstream and travel to the liver, where they get trapped, multiply, and cause abscesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liver abscesses don't usually kill cattle, but they slow the animals' growth and can make slaughtering operations more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nagaraja says that when cattle are fed a standard feedlot diet, 20 percent or more of them typically develop liver abscesses. Tylosin cuts that percentage by more than half, to single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is, of course, great for the feedlot, but according to \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/environmental-and-occupational-health/lance-price\">Lance Price\u003c/a>, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., it's not good at all for the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/22222_img_8399.cr2_enl-2268ebb8cf3d42ae125ef5849b3eb01b16bbf169-e1554231396784.jpg\" alt=\"At Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa, the cattle aren't fed antibiotics to control liver abscesses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa, the cattle aren't fed antibiotics to control liver abscesses. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically a public health decision that they're making,\" he says, and it's a bad one, undermining the effectiveness of drugs that people depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tylosin, for instance, is almost the same as an antibiotic that doctors often prescribe, called erythromycin. So when you feed tylosin to cattle, Price says, \"it puts pressure on all the bacteria in and on that animal. Those bacteria respond to the antibiotic and eventually become resistant to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those antibiotic-resistant bacteria can migrate away from the feedlot, perhaps carried by animal waste. If the bacteria then infect people, they can't be treated with erythromycin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration has banned some uses of antibiotics in animals for exactly this \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/11/200870193/are-antibiotics-on-the-farm-risky-business\">reason\u003c/a>. Farmers can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/safetyhealth/antimicrobialresistance/\">no longer\u003c/a> use antibiotics to make cattle grow faster. Overall, their use of these drugs is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM628538.pdf\">down\u003c/a>. But farmers still can give antibiotics to treat or prevent diseases like liver abscesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gets Lance Price kind of angry. \"We are \u003cem>creating\u003c/em> this disease,\" he says. \"We are creating liver abscesses by the way we're raising [cattle].\" Raise them differently, he says, and cattle wouldn't need tylosin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it's being done. It's even being done at Phelps County Feeders. About 40 percent of the cattle at Joe Klute's cold, wet feedlot are not getting any tylosin, or any growth-promoting hormones. This beef gets sold as an \"all-natural\" product under the company's own brand: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskastarbeef.com/\">Nebraska Star Beef\u003c/a>. The feedlot gets more money for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We decided, hey, it's another avenue of survival. It's another niche. Let's find this niche; let's try to be different,\" Klute says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visited another, much smaller, feedlot in Iowa that's completely antibiotic-free. It grows cattle for the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nimanranch.com/\">Niman Ranch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both places, they're doing it pretty much the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We change how the animals are fed, and we don't have to use tylosin,\" says John Tarpoff, vice president of beef for Niman Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They feed these cattle more hay and silage — and less energy-rich corn. This diet is easier on the animals' stomachs. \"The idea is, you have to protect the whole digestive system,\" Tarpoff says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/5_img_8466.cr2_enl-64ab32cc475119f4f011f83e8611f660ab135db3-e1554231426574.jpg\" alt=\"At Phelps County Feeders, trucks are loaded with hay, rolled corn kernels, corn silage, and dried distillers grains. The proportion varies, depending on which cattle are getting that feed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1182\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Phelps County Feeders, trucks are loaded with hay, rolled corn kernels, corn silage, and dried distillers grains. The proportion varies, depending on which cattle are getting that feed. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there's a trade-off. The animals grow more slowly when their diet is less energy-rich. To gain the same amount of weight, it can take these cattle about five months — as opposed to four months with conventional feeding. And some cattle — less than 10 percent of them — develop liver abscesses under this feeding regimen, too. That's about the same as in feedlots that use a high-energy diet combined with tylosin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another fly in the antibiotic-free ointment: Occasionally, cattle get sick with other diseases and need antibiotics. In that case, they're treated and their meat is no longer sold as \"natural.\" Tarpoff says this happens to fewer than 1 percent of Niman Ranch's cattle. At Phelps County Feeders, it's between 5 and 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you're wondering, these antibiotic-free cattle still are getting plenty of grain in their diet. That's necessary, Tarpoff says, to produce the tender steaks that many consumers prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the longer time and extra feed required to raise cattle this way, it costs more. Tarpoff estimates that it's roughly 15 to 18 percent more. \"We get the complaint all the time, 'Gee, your product costs more than the other guy's,' \" he says. \"Well, yeah, it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some big customers are \u003ca href=\"https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/ChainReaction4_Report-10_17_18.pdf\">willing to pay\u003c/a> for antibiotic-free production. They include Whole Foods and the fast-food chain Shake Shack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, in perhaps the biggest shift in the industry away from antibiotics, McDonald's \u003ca href=\"https://news.mcdonalds.com/stories/using-our-scale-for-good/antibiotic-policy-beef-2018\">announced\u003c/a> that it's taking steps to cut antibiotic use by its beef suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Tarpoff for his reaction. He sounded cautious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not so easily done,\" he said. This industry, at least the mass-market part of it, has always been driven to cut costs. Cutting out the antibiotics will raise costs. \"It'll be interesting to see what happens,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/02/707406946/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-ho\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Most beef cattle receive antibiotics in their feed to prevent liver abscesses while eating a high-energy diet. There's growing pressure on feedlots to stop this — and some have. But it's costly.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1554231627,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1253},"headData":{"title":"Some In The Beef Industry Are Bucking The Widespread Use Of Antibiotics. Here's How | KQED","description":"Most beef cattle receive antibiotics in their feed to prevent liver abscesses while eating a high-energy diet. There's growing pressure on feedlots to stop this — and some have. But it's costly.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"133231 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=133231","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2019/04/02/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-how/","disqusTitle":"Some In The Beef Industry Are Bucking The Widespread Use Of Antibiotics. Here's How","nprByline":"Dan Charles, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"Dan Charles/NPR","nprStoryId":"707406946","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=707406946&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/02/707406946/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-ho?ft=nprml&f=707406946","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:14:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:14:51 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 02 Apr 2019 14:14:51 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/133231/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-how","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>If you ate a hamburger today, or a high-priced steak, chances are it came from an animal that was fed an antibiotic during the last few months of its life.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11719669,bayareabites_131706","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\nThis is one of the most controversial uses of antibiotics in the entire food industry. There's growing pressure on the beef industry to stop doing this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to know how hard that would be. My questions eventually led me to \u003ca href=\"http://zwtranch.com/pcf_nsb.php\">Phelps County Feeders\u003c/a>, a cattle feedlot near Kearney, Neb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was cold and wet on the day I visited. The weather had been bad for weeks. Joe Klute, the feedlot's co-owner, was unhappy because he knew his 15,000 cattle were miserable, too. And miserable cattle don't gain weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean, you spend all this time and energy and effort and money to put weight on them that you hope to get paid [for], and now it's all going to be gone,\" he said. \"Because of the weather stress.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We head out to look at the raw ingredients of beef-making: giant bales of hay; piles of chopped up, fermented corn stalks and leaves called silage; steaming, flattened kernels of corn. \"They get corn flakes for breakfast, just like we do,\" he says with a grin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133233\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/4_img_8421.cr2_enl-30f48eba3d80967d047f0d466d3cdee8b4265b67-e1554231360563.jpg\" alt=\"Steamed, flattened corn is fed to cattle to make them gain weight quickly. This diet can also lead to liver abscesses\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1175\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steamed, flattened corn is fed to cattle to make them gain weight quickly. This diet can also lead to liver abscesses \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And then there are the micro-ingredients, like vitamins. They get dissolved in water and mixed into the truckloads of corn and hay. \"On a 20,000-pound load, those micro-ingredients are going to be less than a pound,\" Klute says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of these micro-ingredients is an antibiotic called tylosin. It's in there because when cattle eat a high-calorie diet, with lots of grain — which they do in feedlots, to fatten them up quickly during the last four to six months of their life — many will develop abscesses on the liver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.vet.k-state.edu/education/dmp/faculty-staff/faculty/nagaraja/\">T. G. Nagaraja\u003c/a>, at Kansas State University, has spent most of his life studying this process. Fermenting grain produces acid in the bovine stomach that's called the rumen, Nagaraja explains. When there's lots of it, the acids can damage the rumen wall. This lets bacteria escape into the bloodstream and travel to the liver, where they get trapped, multiply, and cause abscesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liver abscesses don't usually kill cattle, but they slow the animals' growth and can make slaughtering operations more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nagaraja says that when cattle are fed a standard feedlot diet, 20 percent or more of them typically develop liver abscesses. Tylosin cuts that percentage by more than half, to single digits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is, of course, great for the feedlot, but according to \u003ca href=\"https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/environmental-and-occupational-health/lance-price\">Lance Price\u003c/a>, director of the Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., it's not good at all for the rest of us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133234\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133234\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/22222_img_8399.cr2_enl-2268ebb8cf3d42ae125ef5849b3eb01b16bbf169-e1554231396784.jpg\" alt=\"At Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa, the cattle aren't fed antibiotics to control liver abscesses.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Corrin Farms, near Neola, Iowa, the cattle aren't fed antibiotics to control liver abscesses. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"It's basically a public health decision that they're making,\" he says, and it's a bad one, undermining the effectiveness of drugs that people depend on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tylosin, for instance, is almost the same as an antibiotic that doctors often prescribe, called erythromycin. So when you feed tylosin to cattle, Price says, \"it puts pressure on all the bacteria in and on that animal. Those bacteria respond to the antibiotic and eventually become resistant to it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those antibiotic-resistant bacteria can migrate away from the feedlot, perhaps carried by animal waste. If the bacteria then infect people, they can't be treated with erythromycin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration has banned some uses of antibiotics in animals for exactly this \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/07/11/200870193/are-antibiotics-on-the-farm-risky-business\">reason\u003c/a>. Farmers can \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/animalveterinary/safetyhealth/antimicrobialresistance/\">no longer\u003c/a> use antibiotics to make cattle grow faster. Overall, their use of these drugs is \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM628538.pdf\">down\u003c/a>. But farmers still can give antibiotics to treat or prevent diseases like liver abscesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This gets Lance Price kind of angry. \"We are \u003cem>creating\u003c/em> this disease,\" he says. \"We are creating liver abscesses by the way we're raising [cattle].\" Raise them differently, he says, and cattle wouldn't need tylosin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it's being done. It's even being done at Phelps County Feeders. About 40 percent of the cattle at Joe Klute's cold, wet feedlot are not getting any tylosin, or any growth-promoting hormones. This beef gets sold as an \"all-natural\" product under the company's own brand: \u003ca href=\"https://www.nebraskastarbeef.com/\">Nebraska Star Beef\u003c/a>. The feedlot gets more money for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We decided, hey, it's another avenue of survival. It's another niche. Let's find this niche; let's try to be different,\" Klute says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I also visited another, much smaller, feedlot in Iowa that's completely antibiotic-free. It grows cattle for the company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nimanranch.com/\">Niman Ranch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In both places, they're doing it pretty much the same way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We change how the animals are fed, and we don't have to use tylosin,\" says John Tarpoff, vice president of beef for Niman Ranch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They feed these cattle more hay and silage — and less energy-rich corn. This diet is easier on the animals' stomachs. \"The idea is, you have to protect the whole digestive system,\" Tarpoff says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_133235\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-133235\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2019/04/5_img_8466.cr2_enl-64ab32cc475119f4f011f83e8611f660ab135db3-e1554231426574.jpg\" alt=\"At Phelps County Feeders, trucks are loaded with hay, rolled corn kernels, corn silage, and dried distillers grains. The proportion varies, depending on which cattle are getting that feed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1182\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At Phelps County Feeders, trucks are loaded with hay, rolled corn kernels, corn silage, and dried distillers grains. The proportion varies, depending on which cattle are getting that feed. \u003ccite>(Dan Charles/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But there's a trade-off. The animals grow more slowly when their diet is less energy-rich. To gain the same amount of weight, it can take these cattle about five months — as opposed to four months with conventional feeding. And some cattle — less than 10 percent of them — develop liver abscesses under this feeding regimen, too. That's about the same as in feedlots that use a high-energy diet combined with tylosin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another fly in the antibiotic-free ointment: Occasionally, cattle get sick with other diseases and need antibiotics. In that case, they're treated and their meat is no longer sold as \"natural.\" Tarpoff says this happens to fewer than 1 percent of Niman Ranch's cattle. At Phelps County Feeders, it's between 5 and 10 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In case you're wondering, these antibiotic-free cattle still are getting plenty of grain in their diet. That's necessary, Tarpoff says, to produce the tender steaks that many consumers prefer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of the longer time and extra feed required to raise cattle this way, it costs more. Tarpoff estimates that it's roughly 15 to 18 percent more. \"We get the complaint all the time, 'Gee, your product costs more than the other guy's,' \" he says. \"Well, yeah, it does.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some big customers are \u003ca href=\"https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/ChainReaction4_Report-10_17_18.pdf\">willing to pay\u003c/a> for antibiotic-free production. They include Whole Foods and the fast-food chain Shake Shack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last December, in perhaps the biggest shift in the industry away from antibiotics, McDonald's \u003ca href=\"https://news.mcdonalds.com/stories/using-our-scale-for-good/antibiotic-policy-beef-2018\">announced\u003c/a> that it's taking steps to cut antibiotic use by its beef suppliers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Tarpoff for his reaction. He sounded cautious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not so easily done,\" he said. This industry, at least the mass-market part of it, has always been driven to cut costs. Cutting out the antibiotics will raise costs. \"It'll be interesting to see what happens,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/04/02/707406946/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-ho\">NPR.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/133231/some-in-the-beef-industry-are-bucking-the-widespread-use-of-antibiotics-heres-how","authors":["byline_bayareabites_133231"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_358","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_14775","bayareabites_16272","bayareabites_449","bayareabites_14756"],"featImg":"bayareabites_133232","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_116309":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_116309","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"116309","score":null,"sort":[1490394489000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"the-u-s-cant-really-know-if-farmers-are-cutting-back-on-antibiotics-gao-says","title":"The U.S. Can't Really Know If Farmers Are Cutting Back On Antibiotics, GAO Says","publishDate":1490394489,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When the Food and Drug Administration created controls in January on how farmers can give antibiotics to livestock, scientists concerned about antibiotic resistance and advocates for animal welfare called it a historic shift in how meat animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683130.pdf\">new federal report\u003c/a>, released last week, says the long-awaited FDA initiative — first attempted back in 1977 — falls short in so many areas that it may not create the change that backers hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA initiative, which was created by several documents called Guidances and is usually called its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/AntimicrobialResistance/JudiciousUseofAntimicrobials/\">\"judicious use\" program\u003c/a>, made it impossible for livestock producers to use routine micro-doses of antibiotics known as growth promoters. Those doses speed up the time it takes to get chickens, swine and cattle to slaughtering weight, without preventing or treating illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple lines of research have shown that growth promoters allow bacteria in animals' systems to develop resistance to antibiotics. Those bacteria move off farms in wind or water or with animals going to slaughter, increasing the likelihood of drug-resistant infections, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention kill \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/\">23,000 Americans per year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report by the Government Accountability Office says the FDA is not collecting usage data that will allow it to know if its effort has been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, despite urging by the GAO that goes back to 2004, the FDA and USDA have not negotiated access to farms that would allow them to see the types and manner of antibiotics being given — not even when outbreaks of drug-resistant foodborne illness need to be investigated. The FDA's usage data relies on sales information given by manufacturers, which contains no details about how the drugs actually are used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, the GAO says the FDA has not anticipated the effect of livestock producers switching to \"preventive\" use of antibiotics — which is still allowed and can also stimulate antibiotic resistance, and may undermine the effectiveness of the growth-promoter ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO says the departments already should be gathering all that data, because it is called for in \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/27/fact-sheet-obama-administration-releases-national-action-plan-combat-ant\">executive orders\u003c/a> issued by the Obama administration, which created a national policy on antibiotic resistance. It adds that getting the data is achievable, because other countries that control farm antibiotics, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, collect it routinely and use it to set national usage goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM534243.pdf\">FDA data\u003c/a>, sales of antibiotics for agricultural use in the United States totaled 34.3 million pounds. The agency does not publish comparisons with sales for human use, but the Pew Charitable Trusts estimates that U.S. farms use three times what U.S. patients do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at nonprofits concerned about antibiotic resistance, which have been monitoring the FDA's new policies, said they were dismayed by the GAO's assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Pew Trusts, Dr. Karin Hoelzer said the lack of attention to preventive use is troubling, because it creates a loophole via which farmers could use antibiotics just as routinely as they did before. \"Our analysis has shown that more than one in three labels does not specify a duration of use,\" she said. \"This is falling short of judicious use standards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense that there is no plan for next steps in antibiotic control is also a problem, said Dr. David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council. \"The agencies haven't put in place a plan for what they are going to do, and they can't provide one when asked,\" he said. \"They have no target for where they want to go, and they have no metrics for how they will measure progress toward a goal they haven't even articulated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallinga said Denmark and the Netherlands, mentioned in the GAO report, are useful comparisons to the United States because each country has combined national data on human and animal antibiotic use, and on resistant bacteria found in humans and in animals, into a single annual report. \"Each piece of data is important by itself, but it's only when you marry them together that you get insight into what your next steps should be,\" he said. \"That is something that could be done immediately here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO report was requested by members of Congress who have been pressing for more reform of farm antibiotic use: Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY). (DeLauro has pressed for changes in food safety regulation and Slaughter is the chief sponsor of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would further restrict farm use.) The same day the GAO released its report, the group fired off a stinging \u003ca href=\"https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/following-new-gao-report-gillibrand-feinstein-warren-delauro-and-slaughter-call-on-us-departments-of-agriculture_health-and-human-services-to-end-overuse-of-human-antibiotics-in-farm-animals\">letter\u003c/a> to the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services, parent of the FDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rise of antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health, and the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has been linked to the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria,\" they wrote. The members asked the agencies to set deadlines for getting on farms to gather antibiotic data and to investigate foodborne outbreaks, and to show how they will assure preventive antibiotics are not used in inappropriate ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in global health, public health and food policy.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"New FDA rules limit how farmers can give antibiotics to animals raised for meat. But a Government Accountability Office report says the FDA doesn't collect the data to know if that policy is working.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1490394489,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":906},"headData":{"title":"The U.S. Can't Really Know If Farmers Are Cutting Back On Antibiotics, GAO Says | KQED","description":"New FDA rules limit how farmers can give antibiotics to animals raised for meat. But a Government Accountability Office report says the FDA doesn't collect the data to know if that policy is working.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"116309 https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=116309","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2017/03/24/the-u-s-cant-really-know-if-farmers-are-cutting-back-on-antibiotics-gao-says/","disqusTitle":"The U.S. Can't Really Know If Farmers Are Cutting Back On Antibiotics, GAO Says","source":"Politics, Activism, Food Safety","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/politics-activism-food-safety/","nprByline":"Maryn McKenna, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Scott Eells/Bloomberg/Getty Images","nprStoryId":"521281145","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=521281145&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/24/521281145/the-u-s-can-t-really-know-if-farmers-are-cutting-back-on-antibiotics-gao-says?ft=nprml&f=521281145","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:09:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:20:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:09:08 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/116309/the-u-s-cant-really-know-if-farmers-are-cutting-back-on-antibiotics-gao-says","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When the Food and Drug Administration created controls in January on how farmers can give antibiotics to livestock, scientists concerned about antibiotic resistance and advocates for animal welfare called it a historic shift in how meat animals are raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/assets/690/683130.pdf\">new federal report\u003c/a>, released last week, says the long-awaited FDA initiative — first attempted back in 1977 — falls short in so many areas that it may not create the change that backers hoped for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA initiative, which was created by several documents called Guidances and is usually called its \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/AntimicrobialResistance/JudiciousUseofAntimicrobials/\">\"judicious use\" program\u003c/a>, made it impossible for livestock producers to use routine micro-doses of antibiotics known as growth promoters. Those doses speed up the time it takes to get chickens, swine and cattle to slaughtering weight, without preventing or treating illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple lines of research have shown that growth promoters allow bacteria in animals' systems to develop resistance to antibiotics. Those bacteria move off farms in wind or water or with animals going to slaughter, increasing the likelihood of drug-resistant infections, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention kill \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/threat-report-2013/\">23,000 Americans per year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the report by the Government Accountability Office says the FDA is not collecting usage data that will allow it to know if its effort has been successful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, despite urging by the GAO that goes back to 2004, the FDA and USDA have not negotiated access to farms that would allow them to see the types and manner of antibiotics being given — not even when outbreaks of drug-resistant foodborne illness need to be investigated. The FDA's usage data relies on sales information given by manufacturers, which contains no details about how the drugs actually are used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further, the GAO says the FDA has not anticipated the effect of livestock producers switching to \"preventive\" use of antibiotics — which is still allowed and can also stimulate antibiotic resistance, and may undermine the effectiveness of the growth-promoter ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO says the departments already should be gathering all that data, because it is called for in \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/27/fact-sheet-obama-administration-releases-national-action-plan-combat-ant\">executive orders\u003c/a> issued by the Obama administration, which created a national policy on antibiotic resistance. It adds that getting the data is achievable, because other countries that control farm antibiotics, such as Denmark and the Netherlands, collect it routinely and use it to set national usage goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM534243.pdf\">FDA data\u003c/a>, sales of antibiotics for agricultural use in the United States totaled 34.3 million pounds. The agency does not publish comparisons with sales for human use, but the Pew Charitable Trusts estimates that U.S. farms use three times what U.S. patients do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff at nonprofits concerned about antibiotic resistance, which have been monitoring the FDA's new policies, said they were dismayed by the GAO's assessment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Pew Trusts, Dr. Karin Hoelzer said the lack of attention to preventive use is troubling, because it creates a loophole via which farmers could use antibiotics just as routinely as they did before. \"Our analysis has shown that more than one in three labels does not specify a duration of use,\" she said. \"This is falling short of judicious use standards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sense that there is no plan for next steps in antibiotic control is also a problem, said Dr. David Wallinga, a senior health officer at the Natural Resources Defense Council. \"The agencies haven't put in place a plan for what they are going to do, and they can't provide one when asked,\" he said. \"They have no target for where they want to go, and they have no metrics for how they will measure progress toward a goal they haven't even articulated.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wallinga said Denmark and the Netherlands, mentioned in the GAO report, are useful comparisons to the United States because each country has combined national data on human and animal antibiotic use, and on resistant bacteria found in humans and in animals, into a single annual report. \"Each piece of data is important by itself, but it's only when you marry them together that you get insight into what your next steps should be,\" he said. \"That is something that could be done immediately here.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The GAO report was requested by members of Congress who have been pressing for more reform of farm antibiotic use: Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY). (DeLauro has pressed for changes in food safety regulation and Slaughter is the chief sponsor of the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would further restrict farm use.) The same day the GAO released its report, the group fired off a stinging \u003ca href=\"https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/following-new-gao-report-gillibrand-feinstein-warren-delauro-and-slaughter-call-on-us-departments-of-agriculture_health-and-human-services-to-end-overuse-of-human-antibiotics-in-farm-animals\">letter\u003c/a> to the USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services, parent of the FDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The rise of antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to global health, and the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has been linked to the emergence and spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria,\" they wrote. The members asked the agencies to set deadlines for getting on farms to gather antibiotic data and to investigate foodborne outbreaks, and to show how they will assure preventive antibiotics are not used in inappropriate ways.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Maryn McKenna is a journalist and author who specializes in global health, public health and food policy.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2017 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/116309/the-u-s-cant-really-know-if-farmers-are-cutting-back-on-antibiotics-gao-says","authors":["byline_bayareabites_116309"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_2608","bayareabites_15793"],"featImg":"bayareabites_116310","label":"source_bayareabites_116309"},"bayareabites_114364":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_114364","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"114364","score":null,"sort":[1482462129000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics","title":"Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics","publishDate":1482462129,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>It's a continuing paradox of the meat industry. Every year, more restaurants and food companies announce that they will sell only meat produced with minimal or no use of antibiotics. And every year, despite those pledges, more antibiotics are administered to the nation's swine, cattle and poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm534244.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">figures\u003c/a>, released this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, antibiotic sales for use on farm animals increased by 1 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year. The increase was slightly greater – 2 percent — for antibiotics used as human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA and other public health agencies have been pushing farmers to rely less on these drugs. Heavy use of antibiotics both in human medicine and in agriculture has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, complicating the task of treating many infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the FDA finds a glimmer of good news in the latest figures, pointing out that the rate of increase has slowed. In the previous year, antibiotic use had increased by 4 percent, and a total of 22 percent from 2009 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry has made the most ambitious promises to reduce antibiotic use. Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/07/497033243/perdue-goes-almost-antibiotic-free\">says\u003c/a> that 95 percent of its chickens already are raised with no antibiotics at all. Tyson Foods, the largest producer, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/media/news-releases/2015/04/antibiotics-announcement.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that it is \"striving\" to end the use of antibiotics that also are used in human medicine. Tyson will continue to deploy a class of antibiotics called ionophores, which can't be used on humans. The new report, however, doesn't shed any light on the impact of these moves, because it doesn't show how much of each drug is used on cattle, swine or poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, David Wallinga, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that \"this report further underscores how urgently we need more and stronger government action\" to reduce antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Phillips, from the Animal Health Institute, which represents veterinary drug manufacturers, says that the FDA's data on drug sales tell us little about what's most important — whether the use of those drugs is leading to more drug-resistant bacteria. He says that another recent government \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm529719.htm\">report\u003c/a>, from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, shows \"very encouraging trends.\" According to that report, bacteria found on meat at slaughter have not shown increasing resistance to most antibiotics in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some concerning trends, however. Some species of bacteria found on cattle have shown increasing levels of resistance to ciproflaxin, and turkey samples showed a big increase in Salmonella that's resistant to several different drugs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Many meat producers say they are reducing their use of antibiotics. Yet the latest government statistics show that sales of these drugs for farm use continue to grow.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1482462129,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":11,"wordCount":443},"headData":{"title":"Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics | KQED","description":"Many meat producers say they are reducing their use of antibiotics. Yet the latest government statistics show that sales of these drugs for farm use continue to grow.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"114364 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=114364","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/12/22/despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics/","disqusTitle":"Despite Pledges To Cut Back, Farms Are Still Using Antibiotics","source":"Health and Nutrition","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/health-and-nutrition/","nprImageCredit":"Don Ryan","nprByline":"Dan Charles, NPR Food","nprImageAgency":"AP","nprStoryId":"506599017","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=506599017&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/12/22/506599017/despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics?ft=nprml&f=506599017","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:48:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:12:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:48:02 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/114364/despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's a continuing paradox of the meat industry. Every year, more restaurants and food companies announce that they will sell only meat produced with minimal or no use of antibiotics. And every year, despite those pledges, more antibiotics are administered to the nation's swine, cattle and poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the latest \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm534244.htm?source=govdelivery&utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery\">figures\u003c/a>, released this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, antibiotic sales for use on farm animals increased by 1 percent in 2015, compared to the previous year. The increase was slightly greater – 2 percent — for antibiotics used as human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA and other public health agencies have been pushing farmers to rely less on these drugs. Heavy use of antibiotics both in human medicine and in agriculture has led to the emergence of drug-resistant bacteria, complicating the task of treating many infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the FDA finds a glimmer of good news in the latest figures, pointing out that the rate of increase has slowed. In the previous year, antibiotic use had increased by 4 percent, and a total of 22 percent from 2009 to 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry has made the most ambitious promises to reduce antibiotic use. Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/10/07/497033243/perdue-goes-almost-antibiotic-free\">says\u003c/a> that 95 percent of its chickens already are raised with no antibiotics at all. Tyson Foods, the largest producer, has \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/media/news-releases/2015/04/antibiotics-announcement.aspx\">announced\u003c/a> that it is \"striving\" to end the use of antibiotics that also are used in human medicine. Tyson will continue to deploy a class of antibiotics called ionophores, which can't be used on humans. The new report, however, doesn't shed any light on the impact of these moves, because it doesn't show how much of each drug is used on cattle, swine or poultry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, David Wallinga, from the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that \"this report further underscores how urgently we need more and stronger government action\" to reduce antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ron Phillips, from the Animal Health Institute, which represents veterinary drug manufacturers, says that the FDA's data on drug sales tell us little about what's most important — whether the use of those drugs is leading to more drug-resistant bacteria. He says that another recent government \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/NewsEvents/CVMUpdates/ucm529719.htm\">report\u003c/a>, from the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System, shows \"very encouraging trends.\" According to that report, bacteria found on meat at slaughter have not shown increasing resistance to most antibiotics in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are some concerning trends, however. Some species of bacteria found on cattle have shown increasing levels of resistance to ciproflaxin, and turkey samples showed a big increase in Salmonella that's resistant to several different drugs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/114364/despite-pledges-to-cut-back-farms-are-still-using-antibiotics","authors":["byline_bayareabites_114364"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_358"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_8914"],"featImg":"bayareabites_114365","label":"source_bayareabites_114364"},"bayareabites_105942":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_105942","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"105942","score":null,"sort":[1452648840000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"more-hospitals-are-ditching-antibiotics-in-the-meat-they-serve","title":"More Hospitals Are Ditching Antibiotics In The Meat They Serve","publishDate":1452648840,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Every year some 2 million Americans get infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and 23,000 of them die from these superbugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superbugs are mostly a hospital problem: They're where these pathogens are often born and spread, and where the infected come for help. But hospitals are not where the majority of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf\">data show\u003c/a> that 62 percent of antibiotics important for human health are sold to food animal producers and used on farms. And in December, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/11/459274335/antibiotic-use-on-farms-is-up-despite-promises-to-kick-the-drugs\">noted\u003c/a> that antibiotics for use on the farm increased in 2014, including antibiotics important in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern about the livestock industry's overuse of antibiotics has led a number of health care institutions to start choosing meat from animals raised without antibiotics whenever they can. According to Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit that's helping the health care industry on this issue, more than 400 U.S. hospitals are working toward a goal of making 20 percent of their meat purchases \"antibiotic-free.\" And around a dozen hospitals have already switched the majority of their chicken purchases to antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health care is really voicing their demand for [antibiotic-free meat] products,\" says Hillary Bisnett, a food expert for Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm. \"Hospitals understand antibiotic resistance, and they're being asked to steward their own use of antibiotics. So it's very easy for them to say, 'Livestock producers need to be doing their part, too.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is meat from animals raised without antibiotics really better? Public health groups who follow this issue, like the Pew Charitable Trusts, say it can be safer. Of greatest concern is that when chicken, hog or cattle farmers use drugs to promote growth or prevent disease in their animals, they'll overuse the drugs and create resistant bacteria, like \u003cem>Salmonella\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Campylobacter,\u003c/em> that could make people sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various studies, including \u003ca href=\"http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/09/cid.civ428.full\">ones\u003c/a> by George Washington University microbiologist Lance Price and advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"ConsumerReports.org/cro/beefsafety\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/superbugs/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, have found resistant bacteria on samples of beef, pork, turkey and chicken from supermarkets. If meat contaminated this way isn't cooked properly, the resistant bacteria can infect humans. And if the pathogens are resistant to antibiotics designed to kill them, then doctors may have few tools to treat the infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the hospitals that have made antibiotic-free meat a priority for their food services is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackensackumc.org/\">Hackensack University Medical Center\u003c/a> in New Jersey. But according to Kyle Tafuri, senior sustainability adviser at the hospital, it wasn't easy to figure out how to switch 100 percent of their chicken purchases to antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-400x361.jpg\" alt=\"Perdue's Harvestland brand, antibiotic-free chicken served at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash.\" width=\"400\" height=\"361\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-105944\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-400x361.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-800x722.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-768x693.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-1440x1300.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-1180x1065.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-960x867.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perdue's Harvestland brand, antibiotic-free chicken served at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Overlake Medical Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At first, the hospital's distributor said it didn't have enough antibiotic-free chicken to sell the hospital. But over the course of a few years, and after several meetings with the distributor and a group purchasing organization, they were able to find away to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Tafuri says, the supplier, Perdue, agreed to specially ship the chicken up to the distributor's warehouse just for the hospital. \"It took a lot of work to make this happen and a lot of pushing, but hospitals should be inclined to push the industry to make a change,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His hospital pays 30 percent more for Perdue's antibiotic-free chicken under its Harvestland brand, but Tafuri says it's worth it to his institution to be able to offer a \"higher quality and healthier product.\" He's now working on sourcing more antibiotic-free pork and beef, but he says they're dramatically more expensive, and more difficult to source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-linaman-1734b946\">Chris Linamen\u003c/a>, executive chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.overlakehospital.org/\">Overlake Medical Center\u003c/a> in Bellevue, Wash., says he's managed to find antibiotic-free sources for 79 percent of his total meat purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest challenge is budget,\" says Linamen. He's also struggled to find antibiotic-free sources for specific items, like chicken strips, sausage patties, duck and lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what explains Linamen and Tafuri's success in getting more antibiotic-free meat on the plates they serve is the fact that neither of their institutions is locked into a contract with a big food service management company, like Aramark, Sodexo or Compass, says Bisnett of Practice Greenhealth. Many other hospitals tell her they would like to source more antibiotic-free meat but can't, because their contracts do not allow them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest food-service management companies have very limited supply of these items. And the hospitals \"don't have flexibility in changing vendors or supply,\" says Bisnett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why it's really important that the food service sector get more involved with this issue, too, since one third of hospitals in the U.S. have food service managed by Sodexo, Compass or Aramark,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are far from the only big buyers to get interested in sourcing antibiotic-free meat and apply pressure to biggest meat producers, like Perdue, Tyson, JBS and Smithfield, to make more of it available. Several restaurant and retail chains in 2015 committed to sourcing more antibiotic-free meat, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/04/390701295/mcdonalds-says-it-wont-be-serving-chicken-raised-on-antibiotics\">McDonald's,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450314991/subway-joins-the-fast-food-antibiotic-free-meat-club\">Subway\u003c/a>, Panera, Costco and Chick-fil-A. Some have committed to sourcing antibiotic-free poultry, while others have also given suppliers of beef and pork a mandatory timetable to go antibiotic-free as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Hospitals are on the front lines of the battle against antibiotic resistance. Increasingly, they're trying to walk the talk by purchasing meat from animals raised without antibiotics.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1452648840,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":912},"headData":{"title":"More Hospitals Are Ditching Antibiotics In The Meat They Serve | KQED","description":"Hospitals are on the front lines of the battle against antibiotic resistance. Increasingly, they're trying to walk the talk by purchasing meat from animals raised without antibiotics.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"105942 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=105942","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2016/01/12/more-hospitals-are-ditching-antibiotics-in-the-meat-they-serve/","disqusTitle":"More Hospitals Are Ditching Antibiotics In The Meat They Serve","source":"Health and Nutrition","sourceUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/category/health-and-nutrition/","nprByline":"Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprImageAgency":"Courtesy of Overlake Medical Center","nprStoryId":"462176257","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=462176257&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/12/462176257/more-hospitals-are-ditching-antibiotics-in-the-meat-they-serve?ft=nprml&f=462176257","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:35:00 -0500","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:02:00 -0500","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 12 Jan 2016 16:35:54 -0500","path":"/bayareabites/105942/more-hospitals-are-ditching-antibiotics-in-the-meat-they-serve","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Every year some 2 million Americans get infections from antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and 23,000 of them die from these superbugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superbugs are mostly a hospital problem: They're where these pathogens are often born and spread, and where the infected come for help. But hospitals are not where the majority of antibiotics sold in the U.S. are used.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf\">data show\u003c/a> that 62 percent of antibiotics important for human health are sold to food animal producers and used on farms. And in December, the agency \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/11/459274335/antibiotic-use-on-farms-is-up-despite-promises-to-kick-the-drugs\">noted\u003c/a> that antibiotics for use on the farm increased in 2014, including antibiotics important in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Concern about the livestock industry's overuse of antibiotics has led a number of health care institutions to start choosing meat from animals raised without antibiotics whenever they can. According to Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit that's helping the health care industry on this issue, more than 400 U.S. hospitals are working toward a goal of making 20 percent of their meat purchases \"antibiotic-free.\" And around a dozen hospitals have already switched the majority of their chicken purchases to antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Health care is really voicing their demand for [antibiotic-free meat] products,\" says Hillary Bisnett, a food expert for Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm. \"Hospitals understand antibiotic resistance, and they're being asked to steward their own use of antibiotics. So it's very easy for them to say, 'Livestock producers need to be doing their part, too.' \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is meat from animals raised without antibiotics really better? Public health groups who follow this issue, like the Pew Charitable Trusts, say it can be safer. Of greatest concern is that when chicken, hog or cattle farmers use drugs to promote growth or prevent disease in their animals, they'll overuse the drugs and create resistant bacteria, like \u003cem>Salmonella\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Campylobacter,\u003c/em> that could make people sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Various studies, including \u003ca href=\"http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/07/09/cid.civ428.full\">ones\u003c/a> by George Washington University microbiologist Lance Price and advocacy groups like \u003ca href=\"ConsumerReports.org/cro/beefsafety\">Consumer Reports\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/meateatersguide/superbugs/\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, have found resistant bacteria on samples of beef, pork, turkey and chicken from supermarkets. If meat contaminated this way isn't cooked properly, the resistant bacteria can infect humans. And if the pathogens are resistant to antibiotics designed to kill them, then doctors may have few tools to treat the infections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the hospitals that have made antibiotic-free meat a priority for their food services is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hackensackumc.org/\">Hackensack University Medical Center\u003c/a> in New Jersey. But according to Kyle Tafuri, senior sustainability adviser at the hospital, it wasn't easy to figure out how to switch 100 percent of their chicken purchases to antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_105944\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-400x361.jpg\" alt=\"Perdue's Harvestland brand, antibiotic-free chicken served at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash.\" width=\"400\" height=\"361\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-105944\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-400x361.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-800x722.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-768x693.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-1440x1300.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-1180x1065.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2016/01/seasons-tandoori-chicken-skewers_smaller_enl-eb32ca67f09bc32a2fc727514468ecea721ec4e5-960x867.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perdue's Harvestland brand, antibiotic-free chicken served at Overlake Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Overlake Medical Center)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At first, the hospital's distributor said it didn't have enough antibiotic-free chicken to sell the hospital. But over the course of a few years, and after several meetings with the distributor and a group purchasing organization, they were able to find away to make it work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, Tafuri says, the supplier, Perdue, agreed to specially ship the chicken up to the distributor's warehouse just for the hospital. \"It took a lot of work to make this happen and a lot of pushing, but hospitals should be inclined to push the industry to make a change,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His hospital pays 30 percent more for Perdue's antibiotic-free chicken under its Harvestland brand, but Tafuri says it's worth it to his institution to be able to offer a \"higher quality and healthier product.\" He's now working on sourcing more antibiotic-free pork and beef, but he says they're dramatically more expensive, and more difficult to source.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-linaman-1734b946\">Chris Linamen\u003c/a>, executive chef at \u003ca href=\"http://www.overlakehospital.org/\">Overlake Medical Center\u003c/a> in Bellevue, Wash., says he's managed to find antibiotic-free sources for 79 percent of his total meat purchases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The biggest challenge is budget,\" says Linamen. He's also struggled to find antibiotic-free sources for specific items, like chicken strips, sausage patties, duck and lamb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of what explains Linamen and Tafuri's success in getting more antibiotic-free meat on the plates they serve is the fact that neither of their institutions is locked into a contract with a big food service management company, like Aramark, Sodexo or Compass, says Bisnett of Practice Greenhealth. Many other hospitals tell her they would like to source more antibiotic-free meat but can't, because their contracts do not allow them to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest food-service management companies have very limited supply of these items. And the hospitals \"don't have flexibility in changing vendors or supply,\" says Bisnett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's why it's really important that the food service sector get more involved with this issue, too, since one third of hospitals in the U.S. have food service managed by Sodexo, Compass or Aramark,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals are far from the only big buyers to get interested in sourcing antibiotic-free meat and apply pressure to biggest meat producers, like Perdue, Tyson, JBS and Smithfield, to make more of it available. Several restaurant and retail chains in 2015 committed to sourcing more antibiotic-free meat, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/04/390701295/mcdonalds-says-it-wont-be-serving-chicken-raised-on-antibiotics\">McDonald's,\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450314991/subway-joins-the-fast-food-antibiotic-free-meat-club\">Subway\u003c/a>, Panera, Costco and Chick-fil-A. Some have committed to sourcing antibiotic-free poultry, while others have also given suppliers of beef and pork a mandatory timetable to go antibiotic-free as well. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2016 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/105942/more-hospitals-are-ditching-antibiotics-in-the-meat-they-serve","authors":["byline_bayareabites_105942"],"categories":["bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_15206","bayareabites_12289","bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_12399","bayareabites_243"],"featImg":"bayareabites_105943","label":"source_bayareabites_105942"},"bayareabites_104680":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_104680","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"104680","score":null,"sort":[1449934242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"antibiotic-use-on-farms-is-up-despite-promises-to-kick-the-drugs","title":"Antibiotic Use On Farms Is Up, Despite Promises To Kick The Drugs","publishDate":1449934242,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>If you go by their declarations and promises, meat producers are drastically cutting back on the use of antibiotics to treat their poultry, pigs and cattle. Over the past year, one big food company after another has announced plans to stop using these drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go by the government's data on drugs sold to livestock producers, it's a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Food and Drug Administration, which compiles \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf\">these numbers\u003c/a>, sales of antibiotics for use on the farm increased in 2014, just as they had for most years before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most alarming to public health advocates, sales of antibiotics important in human medicine went up three percent from 2013 to 2014, the FDA found. That's just slightly less than the five-year trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to treating sick animals, meat producers use antibiotics to prevent disease and also to get animals to grow faster. The FDA has taken steps to stop the use of these drugs for growth promotion purposes by the end of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA, and a lot of scientists and health advocates, are concerned that the livestock industry's excessive use of antibiotics will raise the risk that bacteria will become resistant to these drugs, and bacteria carrying those resistance genes could then infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing pressure from consumers around this issue has prompted several Big Food companies to pledge to reduce their reliance on antibiotics or announce reductions they've already made. Among them are the giant agribusinesses \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/28/402736017/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-human-used-antibiotics\">Tyson Foods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">Perdue Farms\u003c/a> and Foster Farms and restaurant chains like McDonalds, Chick-fil-A and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450314991/subway-joins-the-fast-food-antibiotic-free-meat-club\">Subway\u003c/a>. Many of those companies made commitments in 2015, so reductions in antibiotic use by their suppliers may not be reflected in the latest FDA data from 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in previous years, a class of older antibiotics called tetracyclines dominated the statistics on antibiotic use. Tetracyclines accounted for 70 percent of all \"medically important\" antibiotics used in animal agriculture. Tetracyclines are no longer considered first-line drugs in human medicine. But sales of other classes of antibiotics, including widely used human drugs such as cephalosporins and macrolides, also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health groups that have demanded the industry to curb antibiotic use say the latest data confirms that more regulation is still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no indication that FDA's change in policy has yet resulted in any meaningful reductions on antibiotic sales and usage in food animal production,\" Susan Vaughn Grooters, a policy analyst for \u003ca href=\"http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Antibiotics Working\u003c/a>, a coalition of advocacy groups, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5519650ce4b01b71131cb5f9/t/566a54cdc21b86abf16e79e0/1449809101600/KAW+ADUFA+Statement_12.10.15.pdf\">statement\u003c/a>. \"As the coalition has been saying for years, FDA must set clear targets for the reduction in antibiotic use. Otherwise, industry will continue to conduct business as usual, while the crisis of resistance continues to loom large and consumers pay the price.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Producers of poultry, cattle and pigs continue to use more antibiotics, according to the latest government data. That's despite more pledges from food companies to sell meat raised without the drugs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1449934242,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":13,"wordCount":469},"headData":{"title":"Antibiotic Use On Farms Is Up, Despite Promises To Kick The Drugs | KQED","description":"Producers of poultry, cattle and pigs continue to use more antibiotics, according to the latest government data. 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Over the past year, one big food company after another has announced plans to stop using these drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go by the government's data on drugs sold to livestock producers, it's a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Food and Drug Administration, which compiles \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf\">these numbers\u003c/a>, sales of antibiotics for use on the farm increased in 2014, just as they had for most years before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most alarming to public health advocates, sales of antibiotics important in human medicine went up three percent from 2013 to 2014, the FDA found. That's just slightly less than the five-year trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to treating sick animals, meat producers use antibiotics to prevent disease and also to get animals to grow faster. The FDA has taken steps to stop the use of these drugs for growth promotion purposes by the end of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA, and a lot of scientists and health advocates, are concerned that the livestock industry's excessive use of antibiotics will raise the risk that bacteria will become resistant to these drugs, and bacteria carrying those resistance genes could then infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing pressure from consumers around this issue has prompted several Big Food companies to pledge to reduce their reliance on antibiotics or announce reductions they've already made. Among them are the giant agribusinesses \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/28/402736017/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-human-used-antibiotics\">Tyson Foods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">Perdue Farms\u003c/a> and Foster Farms and restaurant chains like McDonalds, Chick-fil-A and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450314991/subway-joins-the-fast-food-antibiotic-free-meat-club\">Subway\u003c/a>. Many of those companies made commitments in 2015, so reductions in antibiotic use by their suppliers may not be reflected in the latest FDA data from 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in previous years, a class of older antibiotics called tetracyclines dominated the statistics on antibiotic use. Tetracyclines accounted for 70 percent of all \"medically important\" antibiotics used in animal agriculture. Tetracyclines are no longer considered first-line drugs in human medicine. But sales of other classes of antibiotics, including widely used human drugs such as cephalosporins and macrolides, also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health groups that have demanded the industry to curb antibiotic use say the latest data confirms that more regulation is still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no indication that FDA's change in policy has yet resulted in any meaningful reductions on antibiotic sales and usage in food animal production,\" Susan Vaughn Grooters, a policy analyst for \u003ca href=\"http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Antibiotics Working\u003c/a>, a coalition of advocacy groups, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5519650ce4b01b71131cb5f9/t/566a54cdc21b86abf16e79e0/1449809101600/KAW+ADUFA+Statement_12.10.15.pdf\">statement\u003c/a>. \"As the coalition has been saying for years, FDA must set clear targets for the reduction in antibiotic use. Otherwise, industry will continue to conduct business as usual, while the crisis of resistance continues to loom large and consumers pay the price.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/104680/antibiotic-use-on-farms-is-up-despite-promises-to-kick-the-drugs","authors":["byline_bayareabites_104680"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_12288","bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_1057","bayareabites_2608"],"featImg":"bayareabites_104681","label":"source_bayareabites_104680"},"bayareabites_95748":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_95748","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"95748","score":null,"sort":[1430243431000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-antibiotics-used-by-humans","title":"Tyson Foods To Stop Giving Chickens Antibiotics Used By Humans","publishDate":1430243431,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/04/20150428_me_tyson_foods_to_stop_giving_chickens_human-used_antibiotics.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson Foods, the country's biggest poultry producer, is promising to stop feeding its chickens any antibiotics that are used in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the most dramatic sign so far of a major shift by the poultry industry. The speed with which chicken producers have turned away from antibiotics, in fact, has surprised some of the industry's longtime critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the farmers who raise chickens, pigs and cattle have used antibiotics as part of a formula for growing more animals, and growing them more cheaply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that practice has become controversial, because the more frequently such drugs are used, the more quickly bacteria evolve resistance to them. There are fears that antibiotic resistance could be migrating from bacteria in farm animals to bacteria that infect people — and that those infections are then more difficult to treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry now appears ready to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, major companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">Perdue\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/pilgrims-expects-25-of-its-chicken-will-be-antibiotic-free-by-2019-1429564675\">Pilgrim's Pride\u003c/a> have announced significant cuts in antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tyson Foods, the biggest of them all, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/Media/News-Releases/2015/04/Antibiotics-Announcement.aspx\">has announced\u003c/a> its own plan. Donnie Smith, Tyson's CEO, says that by September 2017, the company expects to eliminate the use of all antibiotics that also are used in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson still will use a class of antibiotics called ionophores that are not used to treat humans. If bacteria develop resistance to ionophores, doctors don't care, because they never use ionophores anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith pointed out that Tyson is not promising to never ever use a human antibiotic. \"What we're saying is, we don't believe that we're going to need to. But we're not going to let chickens suffer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the company does resort to using a human antibiotic, though, it will report that use publicly, Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Smith, Tyson already has reduced its use of human-use antibiotics by 80 percent over the past four years. More than 90 percent of its chickens, in fact, now do not receive any human-use antibiotics at any point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timetable and details of Tyson's plans echoed those of \u003ca href=\"http://news.mcdonalds.com/Corporate/news-stories/McDonald-s-USA-Announces-New-Antibiotics-Policy-an\">McDonald's\u003c/a>, which announced last month that within two years, its U.S. restaurants will not serve chicken from birds that have been treated with medically important antibiotics. Tyson Foods is a major supplier for McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/experts/gail-hansen\">Gail Hansen\u003c/a>, a longtime critic of antibiotic use with the Pew Charitable Trust's Antibiotic Resistance Project, called the announcement a really big deal. \"Tyson is the big chicken producer,\" she said. \"Lots and lots of folks are saying that they want to go to fewer and fewer antibiotics, and Tyson is saying, 'We're with you. We're going there, too.' So this is huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the same day that Tyson released its plans, Hansen's group announced its own \u003ca href=\"http://certifiedresponsibleantibiotics.org/\">initiative\u003c/a> to promote antibiotic-free chicken. It's a new certification for chicken, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolfoodfocus.org/\">School Food Focus\u003c/a>. Auditors will verify that meat that receives this certification came from chickens that never were treated with medically relevant antibiotics, except when the birds were sick and needed treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics of antibiotic use also welcomed the announcement and called on other meat producers to follow the poultry industry's example. \"Why are the turkey, pork and beef industries lagging so far behind?\" asked Steve Roach, with a campaign called \u003ca href=\"http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/\">Keep Antibiotics Working\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.gwu.edu/faculty/index.cfm?employeeID=907\">Lance Price\u003c/a>, a microbiologist and director of the recently launched Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University, echoed the call for other producers to limit antibiotic use: \"The sooner we implement sound strategies to curb all unnecessary antibiotic use in every food-animal sector, the sooner we can protect public health from the looming threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Antibiotic use is falling out of fashion in the poultry industry. Tyson Foods, the biggest poultry producer in the U.S., says it will stop feeding its birds human-use antibiotics in two years.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1430243431,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":20,"wordCount":671},"headData":{"title":"Tyson Foods To Stop Giving Chickens Antibiotics Used By Humans | KQED","description":"Antibiotic use is falling out of fashion in the poultry industry. Tyson Foods, the biggest poultry producer in the U.S., says it will stop feeding its birds human-use antibiotics in two years.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"95748 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=95748","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/04/28/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-antibiotics-used-by-humans/","disqusTitle":"Tyson Foods To Stop Giving Chickens Antibiotics Used By Humans","nprByline":"Dan Charles, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/nprfood/\">NPR Food\u003c/a>","nprStoryId":"402736017","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=402736017&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/04/28/402736017/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-human-used-antibiotics?ft=nprml&f=402736017","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:16:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Tue, 28 Apr 2015 05:15:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Tue, 28 Apr 2015 12:16:43 -0400","nprAudio":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/04/20150428_me_tyson_foods_to_stop_giving_chickens_human-used_antibiotics.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&e=402736017&d=109&ft=nprml&f=402736017","nprAudioM3u":"http://api.npr.org/m3u/1402736018-8c97ee.m3u?orgId=1&topicId=1053&e=402736017&d=109&ft=nprml&f=402736017","path":"/bayareabites/95748/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-antibiotics-used-by-humans","audioUrl":"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/04/20150428_me_tyson_foods_to_stop_giving_chickens_human-used_antibiotics.mp3?orgId=1&topicId=1053&e=402736017&d=109&ft=nprml&f=402736017","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story on Morning Edition:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2015/04/20150428_me_tyson_foods_to_stop_giving_chickens_human-used_antibiotics.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson Foods, the country's biggest poultry producer, is promising to stop feeding its chickens any antibiotics that are used in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's the most dramatic sign so far of a major shift by the poultry industry. The speed with which chicken producers have turned away from antibiotics, in fact, has surprised some of the industry's longtime critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For decades, the farmers who raise chickens, pigs and cattle have used antibiotics as part of a formula for growing more animals, and growing them more cheaply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that practice has become controversial, because the more frequently such drugs are used, the more quickly bacteria evolve resistance to them. There are fears that antibiotic resistance could be migrating from bacteria in farm animals to bacteria that infect people — and that those infections are then more difficult to treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poultry industry now appears ready to change course.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, major companies such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">Perdue\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wsj.com/articles/pilgrims-expects-25-of-its-chicken-will-be-antibiotic-free-by-2019-1429564675\">Pilgrim's Pride\u003c/a> have announced significant cuts in antibiotic use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Tyson Foods, the biggest of them all, \u003ca href=\"http://www.tysonfoods.com/Media/News-Releases/2015/04/Antibiotics-Announcement.aspx\">has announced\u003c/a> its own plan. Donnie Smith, Tyson's CEO, says that by September 2017, the company expects to eliminate the use of all antibiotics that also are used in human medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tyson still will use a class of antibiotics called ionophores that are not used to treat humans. If bacteria develop resistance to ionophores, doctors don't care, because they never use ionophores anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith pointed out that Tyson is not promising to never ever use a human antibiotic. \"What we're saying is, we don't believe that we're going to need to. But we're not going to let chickens suffer,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the company does resort to using a human antibiotic, though, it will report that use publicly, Smith says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Smith, Tyson already has reduced its use of human-use antibiotics by 80 percent over the past four years. More than 90 percent of its chickens, in fact, now do not receive any human-use antibiotics at any point in their lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timetable and details of Tyson's plans echoed those of \u003ca href=\"http://news.mcdonalds.com/Corporate/news-stories/McDonald-s-USA-Announces-New-Antibiotics-Policy-an\">McDonald's\u003c/a>, which announced last month that within two years, its U.S. restaurants will not serve chicken from birds that have been treated with medically important antibiotics. Tyson Foods is a major supplier for McDonald's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/experts/gail-hansen\">Gail Hansen\u003c/a>, a longtime critic of antibiotic use with the Pew Charitable Trust's Antibiotic Resistance Project, called the announcement a really big deal. \"Tyson is the big chicken producer,\" she said. \"Lots and lots of folks are saying that they want to go to fewer and fewer antibiotics, and Tyson is saying, 'We're with you. We're going there, too.' So this is huge.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the same day that Tyson released its plans, Hansen's group announced its own \u003ca href=\"http://certifiedresponsibleantibiotics.org/\">initiative\u003c/a> to promote antibiotic-free chicken. It's a new certification for chicken, developed in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a group called \u003ca href=\"http://www.schoolfoodfocus.org/\">School Food Focus\u003c/a>. Auditors will verify that meat that receives this certification came from chickens that never were treated with medically relevant antibiotics, except when the birds were sick and needed treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other critics of antibiotic use also welcomed the announcement and called on other meat producers to follow the poultry industry's example. \"Why are the turkey, pork and beef industries lagging so far behind?\" asked Steve Roach, with a campaign called \u003ca href=\"http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/\">Keep Antibiotics Working\u003c/a>, in a statement emailed to reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://publichealth.gwu.edu/faculty/index.cfm?employeeID=907\">Lance Price\u003c/a>, a microbiologist and director of the recently launched Antibiotic Resistance Action Center at George Washington University, echoed the call for other producers to limit antibiotic use: \"The sooner we implement sound strategies to curb all unnecessary antibiotic use in every food-animal sector, the sooner we can protect public health from the looming threat of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/95748/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-antibiotics-used-by-humans","authors":["byline_bayareabites_95748"],"categories":["bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_12328","bayareabites_14419"],"featImg":"bayareabites_95749","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_93722":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_93722","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"93722","score":null,"sort":[1425847260000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"fda-tests-turn-up-dairy-farmers-breaking-the-law-on-antibiotics","title":"FDA Tests Turn Up Dairy Farmers Breaking The Law On Antibiotics","publishDate":1425847260,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_93723\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871.jpg\" alt=\"FDA tests have turned up residues suggesting a few dairy farmers are illegally using antibiotics. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-1440x957.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FDA tests have turned up residues suggesting a few dairy farmers are illegally using antibiotics. Photo: iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/08/391248045/fda-tests-turn-up-dairy-farmers-breaking-the-law-on-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/8/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the current controversy over antibiotic use on farm animals, milk is in a special category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lactating cows, unlike hogs, cattle or chickens that are raised for their meat, don't receive antibiotics unless they are actually sick. That's because drug residues immediately appear in the cow's milk — a violation of food safety rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk shipments are tested for six of the most widely used antibiotics, and any truckload that tests positive is rejected. So when cows are treated, farmers discard their milk for several days until the residues disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM435759.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the Food and Drug Administration reveals that a few farmers are slipping through a hole in this enforcement net. These farmers are using antibiotics that the routine tests don't try to detect, because the drugs aren't supposed to be used on dairy cows at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA looked for 31 different drugs in samples of milk from almost 2,000 dairy farms. About half of the farms — the \"targeted\" group — had come under suspicion for sending cows to slaughter that turned out to have drug residues in their meat. The other farms were a random sample of all milk producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over 1 percent of the samples from the \"targeted\" group, and 0.4 percent of the randomly collected samples, contained drug residues. An antibiotic called Florfenicol was the most common drug detected, but 11 other drugs also turned up. Perhaps most disturbing: None of the drugs that the FDA detected are approved for use in lactating dairy cows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the survey was carried out for research purposes, the samples were collected anonymously, and the FDA cannot send investigators to the farms to find out what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vet.k-state.edu/education/clinical-sciences/faculty-staff/faculty/apley/\">Mike Apley\u003c/a>, a researcher at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, says that it is \"totally illegal\" for dairy farmers to use two of the drugs that the FDA detected: Ciproflaxacin and Sulfamethazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of other drugs, he says, the situation is more complicated. It's illegal for farmers to use those drugs on their own, but veterinarians are allowed to authorize their use in dairy cows under certain strict conditions. Veterinarians also are supposed to ensure that no residues enter the food supply. For whatever reason, that veterinary safeguard didn't work in these cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. William Flynn, deputy director for science policy in the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, chose to focus on the fact that the violations were uncommon. \"These are encouraging findings,\" Flynn tells The Salt. The low number of violations indicates that \"things are working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn says the FDA is working on plans to stop illegal drug use by dairy farmers. This could include testing all milk for a larger number of antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vetmed.tamu.edu/vtpb/directorydetail?userid=346\">Morgan Scott\u003c/a>, a veterinary epidemiologist at Texas A&M University, noted that a small number of farmers, through their reckless use of drugs, may end up imposing substantial costs on all other dairy farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is tragic, that some farmers don't think that keeping the reputation of the industry intact is a priority,\" he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Random tests of milk reveal that a few farmers are treating dairy cows with antibiotics that aren't supposed to be used on them. The FDA is now considering tighter controls to prevent such practices.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1425847260,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":557},"headData":{"title":"FDA Tests Turn Up Dairy Farmers Breaking The Law On Antibiotics | KQED","description":"Random tests of milk reveal that a few farmers are treating dairy cows with antibiotics that aren't supposed to be used on them. 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Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1276\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93723\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-1440x957.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-1180x784.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-768x510.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/03/istock_000019322566xlarge_edit_custom-9d4c4a33422ae3c4775983ae0de71646537c78c4-e1425847073871-320x213.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FDA tests have turned up residues suggesting a few dairy farmers are illegally using antibiotics. Photo: iStockphoto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/08/391248045/fda-tests-turn-up-dairy-farmers-breaking-the-law-on-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (3/8/15)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to the current controversy over antibiotic use on farm animals, milk is in a special category.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lactating cows, unlike hogs, cattle or chickens that are raised for their meat, don't receive antibiotics unless they are actually sick. That's because drug residues immediately appear in the cow's milk — a violation of food safety rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milk shipments are tested for six of the most widely used antibiotics, and any truckload that tests positive is rejected. So when cows are treated, farmers discard their milk for several days until the residues disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AnimalVeterinary/GuidanceComplianceEnforcement/ComplianceEnforcement/UCM435759.pdf\">report\u003c/a> from the Food and Drug Administration reveals that a few farmers are slipping through a hole in this enforcement net. These farmers are using antibiotics that the routine tests don't try to detect, because the drugs aren't supposed to be used on dairy cows at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA looked for 31 different drugs in samples of milk from almost 2,000 dairy farms. About half of the farms — the \"targeted\" group — had come under suspicion for sending cows to slaughter that turned out to have drug residues in their meat. The other farms were a random sample of all milk producers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just over 1 percent of the samples from the \"targeted\" group, and 0.4 percent of the randomly collected samples, contained drug residues. An antibiotic called Florfenicol was the most common drug detected, but 11 other drugs also turned up. Perhaps most disturbing: None of the drugs that the FDA detected are approved for use in lactating dairy cows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the survey was carried out for research purposes, the samples were collected anonymously, and the FDA cannot send investigators to the farms to find out what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.vet.k-state.edu/education/clinical-sciences/faculty-staff/faculty/apley/\">Mike Apley\u003c/a>, a researcher at Kansas State University's College of Veterinary Medicine, says that it is \"totally illegal\" for dairy farmers to use two of the drugs that the FDA detected: Ciproflaxacin and Sulfamethazine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of other drugs, he says, the situation is more complicated. It's illegal for farmers to use those drugs on their own, but veterinarians are allowed to authorize their use in dairy cows under certain strict conditions. Veterinarians also are supposed to ensure that no residues enter the food supply. For whatever reason, that veterinary safeguard didn't work in these cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. William Flynn, deputy director for science policy in the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine, chose to focus on the fact that the violations were uncommon. \"These are encouraging findings,\" Flynn tells The Salt. The low number of violations indicates that \"things are working well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn says the FDA is working on plans to stop illegal drug use by dairy farmers. This could include testing all milk for a larger number of antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://vetmed.tamu.edu/vtpb/directorydetail?userid=346\">Morgan Scott\u003c/a>, a veterinary epidemiologist at Texas A&M University, noted that a small number of farmers, through their reckless use of drugs, may end up imposing substantial costs on all other dairy farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That, to me, is tragic, that some farmers don't think that keeping the reputation of the industry intact is a priority,\" he says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003cem>Copyright 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/93722/fda-tests-turn-up-dairy-farmers-breaking-the-law-on-antibiotics","authors":["byline_bayareabites_93722"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_9541","bayareabites_10480","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_2608","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_93723","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_87946":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_87946","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"87946","score":null,"sort":[1411454772000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free","title":"Giving Chickens Bacteria ... To Keep Them Antibiotic-Free","publishDate":1411454772,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks3_wide-5b4c626f8afe2c8cf66136e592068973037f0f0b-e1411454197512.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks3_wide-5b4c626f8afe2c8cf66136e592068973037f0f0b-e1411454197512.jpg\" alt='Within a day after chicks hatch, they are sorted by sex and shipped to farms. Some will be treated with antibiotics; others will not. Photo\" Dan Charles /NPR' width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87947\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Within a day after chicks hatch, they are sorted by sex and shipped to farms. Some will be treated with antibiotics; others will not. Photo\" Dan Charles /NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/22/350590488/giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/22/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know those foods and pills that promise to supply your body with \"good bacteria?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/09/156381323/confusion-at-the-yogurt-aisle-time-for-probiotics-101\">may or may not\u003c/a> make \u003cem>you\u003c/em> healthier, but some of these \"probiotics\" do, in fact, appear to be effective in chickens. Poultry companies are turning to probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics, which have become increasingly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we took antibiotics out of the feed, we put some other things in, such as probiotics,\" says Bruce Stewart-Brown, an executive at Perdue Farms. \"We've increased the amount of probiotics by five times over the past five years. It's a significant part of our program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poultry companies have fed antibiotics to their chickens to fight off disease, and also to make them grow faster. Public health advocates have been pushing for an end to this practice, saying that it can lead to the emergence of more antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue Farms has not gone completely antibiotic-free, but it has reduced or \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">eliminated\u003c/a> some uses of antibiotics in its operations, and it is expanding production of chickens that are raised completely without antibiotics. According to Stewart-Brown, that has forced the company to search for new ways to keep chickens healthy, which is where probiotics come in. The idea is, all these \"good bacteria\" can crowd out the harmful microbes that make a chicken sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says that he was initially skeptical about probiotics. \"Eight years ago, I would have said that they're not working in poultry. They're not very useful. Today, I'm saying that they are useful. Expensive, but useful.\" Chickens that got probiotics stayed healthier and grew faster than birds that didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He declined to say exactly what products the company is using, but some poultry \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepoultrysite.com/focus/biomin/2270/biomin-poultrystar-defined-probiotic-product-proves-efficacy\">probiotics\u003c/a> include live \u003cem>Enterococcus, Lactobacillus \u003c/em>and\u003cem> Bifidobacterium\u003c/em> microorganisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks_wide-8cce0b270d493326ac901c52cfc64cb749287c97-e1411454632397.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks_wide-8cce0b270d493326ac901c52cfc64cb749287c97-e1411454632397.jpg\" alt=\"These chicks, at a Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md., have received no antibiotics. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87948\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These chicks, at a Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md., have received no antibiotics. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, Perdue Farms has eliminated the use of animal byproducts, such as fat, in chicken feed, after finding that chickens appeared to stay healthier on a vegetarian diet. (Chickens, of course, aren't \"naturally\" vegetarian; given the choice, they'll happily forage for insect larvae.) \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It now vaccinates its chickens against a wider array of diseases. It experimented with herbal remedies that were used by Coleman Natural, an organic poultry company that Perdue bought in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stewart-Brown, all of this has increased the company's costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our birds grow a little bit slower, significantly slower than the rest of the industry, in general,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as long as consumers are willing to pay better prices for meat from chickens raised without antibiotics, the extra cost is worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"What does it take to get chickens off antibiotics? According to Perdue Farms, an added dose of the \"good bacteria\" known as probiotics can help crowd out the harmful microbes that make a chicken sick.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1411454772,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":492},"headData":{"title":"Giving Chickens Bacteria ... To Keep Them Antibiotic-Free | KQED","description":"What does it take to get chickens off antibiotics? 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To Keep Them Antibiotic-Free","nprByline":"Dan Charles","nprStoryId":"350590488","nprApiLink":"http://api.npr.org/query?id=350590488&apiKey=MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004","nprHtmlLink":"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/22/350590488/giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free?ft=3&f=350590488","nprRetrievedStory":"1","nprPubDate":"Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:00 -0400","nprStoryDate":"Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:11:00 -0400","nprLastModifiedDate":"Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:56:44 -0400","path":"/bayareabites/87946/giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87947\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks3_wide-5b4c626f8afe2c8cf66136e592068973037f0f0b-e1411454197512.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks3_wide-5b4c626f8afe2c8cf66136e592068973037f0f0b-e1411454197512.jpg\" alt='Within a day after chicks hatch, they are sorted by sex and shipped to farms. Some will be treated with antibiotics; others will not. Photo\" Dan Charles /NPR' width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87947\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Within a day after chicks hatch, they are sorted by sex and shipped to farms. Some will be treated with antibiotics; others will not. Photo\" Dan Charles /NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/22/350590488/giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (6/22/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know those foods and pills that promise to supply your body with \"good bacteria?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/09/156381323/confusion-at-the-yogurt-aisle-time-for-probiotics-101\">may or may not\u003c/a> make \u003cem>you\u003c/em> healthier, but some of these \"probiotics\" do, in fact, appear to be effective in chickens. Poultry companies are turning to probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics, which have become increasingly controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As we took antibiotics out of the feed, we put some other things in, such as probiotics,\" says Bruce Stewart-Brown, an executive at Perdue Farms. \"We've increased the amount of probiotics by five times over the past five years. It's a significant part of our program.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Poultry companies have fed antibiotics to their chickens to fight off disease, and also to make them grow faster. Public health advocates have been pushing for an end to this practice, saying that it can lead to the emergence of more antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue Farms has not gone completely antibiotic-free, but it has reduced or \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\">eliminated\u003c/a> some uses of antibiotics in its operations, and it is expanding production of chickens that are raised completely without antibiotics. According to Stewart-Brown, that has forced the company to search for new ways to keep chickens healthy, which is where probiotics come in. The idea is, all these \"good bacteria\" can crowd out the harmful microbes that make a chicken sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says that he was initially skeptical about probiotics. \"Eight years ago, I would have said that they're not working in poultry. They're not very useful. Today, I'm saying that they are useful. Expensive, but useful.\" Chickens that got probiotics stayed healthier and grew faster than birds that didn't.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He declined to say exactly what products the company is using, but some poultry \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepoultrysite.com/focus/biomin/2270/biomin-poultrystar-defined-probiotic-product-proves-efficacy\">probiotics\u003c/a> include live \u003cem>Enterococcus, Lactobacillus \u003c/em>and\u003cem> Bifidobacterium\u003c/em> microorganisms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks_wide-8cce0b270d493326ac901c52cfc64cb749287c97-e1411454632397.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/chicks_wide-8cce0b270d493326ac901c52cfc64cb749287c97-e1411454632397.jpg\" alt=\"These chicks, at a Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md., have received no antibiotics. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87948\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">These chicks, at a Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md., have received no antibiotics. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition, Perdue Farms has eliminated the use of animal byproducts, such as fat, in chicken feed, after finding that chickens appeared to stay healthier on a vegetarian diet. (Chickens, of course, aren't \"naturally\" vegetarian; given the choice, they'll happily forage for insect larvae.) \u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>It now vaccinates its chickens against a wider array of diseases. It experimented with herbal remedies that were used by Coleman Natural, an organic poultry company that Perdue bought in 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stewart-Brown, all of this has increased the company's costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Our birds grow a little bit slower, significantly slower than the rest of the industry, in general,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as long as consumers are willing to pay better prices for meat from chickens raised without antibiotics, the extra cost is worth it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/87946/giving-chickens-bacteria-to-keep-them-antibiotic-free","authors":["byline_bayareabites_87946"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_10028","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_621","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_13829","bayareabites_184"],"featImg":"bayareabites_87947","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_87093":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_87093","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"87093","score":null,"sort":[1409800985000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics","title":"Perdue Says Its Hatching Chicks Are Off Antibiotics","publishDate":1409800985,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87094\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-3_slide-745a8da86a235a678943bc2f039d8ac427c3261e.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-3_slide-745a8da86a235a678943bc2f039d8ac427c3261e.jpg\" alt='Chicks in the Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md. The company says all its chickens are now raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" Photo: Dan Charles/NPR' width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87094\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicks in the Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md. The company says all its chickens are now raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on All Things Considered:\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/09/20140903_atc_perdue_says_its_hatching_chicks_get_no_antibiotics.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.perduefarms.com/News_Room/Press_Releases/details.asp?id=1104&title=Perdue%20Foods%20reaches%20milestone%20in%20reducing%20antibiotic%20use,%20sets%20standard%20for%20responsible%20use\">says\u003c/a> it has ditched the common practice of injecting antibiotics into eggs that are just about to hatch. And public health advocates are cheering. They've been campaigning against the widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture, arguing that it's adding to the plague of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular use of antibiotics is ubiquitous but little-known. It happens at hatcheries, which lie at the heart of large-scale chicken production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-4_slide-968d697edf8f023cb77ccbcef66b235e89fc36ba.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-4_slide-968d697edf8f023cb77ccbcef66b235e89fc36ba.jpg\" alt=\"Perdue used to inject its fertilized eggs with gentamicin but phased out the practice over 12 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87095\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perdue used to inject its fertilized eggs with gentamicin but phased out the practice over 12 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hatcheries don't get a lot of attention. From the outside, Perdue's hatchery in Salisbury, Md., is just a simple, one-story cinder block building. What goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMhmmPjF478\">inside\u003c/a>, though, is amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1 million eggs arrive here every week from breeding farms a few hours away in West Virginia. Unlike the eggs you buy in the store, these eggs are fertilized; there are embryos inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They go into massive heated incubators for 18 days. Then, when they're almost ready to hatch, they're wheeled out into a hallway. Tray by tray, they go through a vaccination robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bank of needles descends. Each needle punctures an egg and squirts in a bit of fluid: a vaccine against a common chicken virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-stewart-brown/49/a80/195\">Bruce Stewart-Brown\u003c/a>, a veterinarian and senior vice president for Perdue, tells me that the fluid contains a vaccine against \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease\">Marek's disease\u003c/a>, a highly contagious common chicken virus. He points out a tiny hole in each egg, where the needle went in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1668px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-1_slide-75255d7d2c567bc0a7d824366d6891dc4640443b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-1_slide-75255d7d2c567bc0a7d824366d6891dc4640443b.jpg\" alt=\"When the chicks are almost ready to hatch, they go through a vaccination robot. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1668\" height=\"1112\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87096\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the chicks are almost ready to hatch, they go through a vaccination robot. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that hole is a risk, because the last thing you want is bacteria getting in and infecting the embryo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, in many hatcheries across the country, these machines also inject an antibiotic called gentamicin, along with the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's even \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition\">allowed\u003c/a> in production of organic chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to happen here, but all of Perdue's 15 hatcheries now are off antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.perduefarms.com/Our_Story/Three_Generations/\">Jim Perdue\u003c/a>, the company's CEO, says that weaning wasn't easy. \"You can't do this overnight,\" he says. \"You really got to work hard at it. And that's why it's an exciting thing, because it's the culmination of a lot, a lot of effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to this point took 12 years, Perdue says. When they first tried it, a lot of chicks got infections and died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says the company learned, over the following years, how to make sure the hens laying these eggs were healthy, and that their eggs were clean as they arrived at the hatchery. \"You can't have dirty eggs coming into the hatchery and be successful at a no-antibiotic hatchery,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stewart-Brown, Perdue's hatcheries are working better now, antibiotic-free, than they ever did before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1779px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-2_slide-49ed18901f3dd8e91079d71d74befe2f5f89b7c6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-2_slide-49ed18901f3dd8e91079d71d74befe2f5f89b7c6.jpg\" alt=\"At left, CEO Jim Perdue inside the company's hatchery in Salisbury, Md. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1779\" height=\"1186\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87097\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, CEO Jim Perdue inside the company's hatchery in Salisbury, Md. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health advocates, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/experts/gail-hansen\">Gail Hansen\u003c/a>, a veterinarian and senior officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts, gave Perdue a round of applause Wednesday. \"From the public health point of view, to not use gentamicin in the eggs is a big step,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen and others have been campaigning against the use of antibiotics in farm animals because it can increase the risk that bacteria will evolve to become \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/antibiotic-use-on-the-farm-are-we-flying-blind/\">resistant to antibiotics\u003c/a>. This, in turn, can make human infections harder to treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other poultry companies have also stopped using antibiotics at some hatcheries, but Perdue appears to be the first to make all of its hatcheries antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">has been pushing\u003c/a> meat producers to reduce their antibiotic use in all stages of their animals' lives — not just at the hatchery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a few days after eggs go through that vaccination robot, little yellow chicks emerge. Within a few hours, they'll be on their way to farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those farms, some of Perdue's chickens will get antibiotics in their feed — but only ionophores, a class of antibiotics that humans don't take. A few flocks — fewer than 5 percent, Perdue says — are likely to get sick; they may get antibiotics in their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an increasing number will get no antibiotics at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says the company is still learning how best to grow chickens without antibiotics. It costs more, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consumers\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/02/19/americans-want-antibiotic-free-chicken-and-the-industry-is-listening/\"> seem willing to pay\u003c/a> a little more for chickens that Perdue says were raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Perdue Farms, one of the country's largest suppliers of chicken meat, says its hatcheries are working better now without antibiotics. Public health advocates call it \"a big step\" forward.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1409800985,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":29,"wordCount":830},"headData":{"title":"Perdue Says Its Hatching Chicks Are Off Antibiotics | KQED","description":"Perdue Farms, one of the country's largest suppliers of chicken meat, says its hatcheries are working better now without antibiotics. 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The company says all its chickens are now raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" Photo: Dan Charles/NPR' width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87094\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chicks in the Perdue hatchery in Salisbury, Md. The company says all its chickens are now raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on All Things Considered:\u003cbr>\nhttp://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/09/20140903_atc_perdue_says_its_hatching_chicks_get_no_antibiotics.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/3/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perdue Farms \u003ca href=\"http://www.perduefarms.com/News_Room/Press_Releases/details.asp?id=1104&title=Perdue%20Foods%20reaches%20milestone%20in%20reducing%20antibiotic%20use,%20sets%20standard%20for%20responsible%20use\">says\u003c/a> it has ditched the common practice of injecting antibiotics into eggs that are just about to hatch. And public health advocates are cheering. They've been campaigning against the widespread use of antibiotics in agriculture, arguing that it's adding to the plague of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This particular use of antibiotics is ubiquitous but little-known. It happens at hatcheries, which lie at the heart of large-scale chicken production.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87095\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1798px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-4_slide-968d697edf8f023cb77ccbcef66b235e89fc36ba.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-4_slide-968d697edf8f023cb77ccbcef66b235e89fc36ba.jpg\" alt=\"Perdue used to inject its fertilized eggs with gentamicin but phased out the practice over 12 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1798\" height=\"1198\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87095\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perdue used to inject its fertilized eggs with gentamicin but phased out the practice over 12 years. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hatcheries don't get a lot of attention. From the outside, Perdue's hatchery in Salisbury, Md., is just a simple, one-story cinder block building. What goes on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMhmmPjF478\">inside\u003c/a>, though, is amazing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 1 million eggs arrive here every week from breeding farms a few hours away in West Virginia. Unlike the eggs you buy in the store, these eggs are fertilized; there are embryos inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They go into massive heated incubators for 18 days. Then, when they're almost ready to hatch, they're wheeled out into a hallway. Tray by tray, they go through a vaccination robot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bank of needles descends. Each needle punctures an egg and squirts in a bit of fluid: a vaccine against a common chicken virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/pub/bruce-stewart-brown/49/a80/195\">Bruce Stewart-Brown\u003c/a>, a veterinarian and senior vice president for Perdue, tells me that the fluid contains a vaccine against \u003ca href=\"http://www.thepoultrysite.com/diseaseinfo/90/mareks-disease\">Marek's disease\u003c/a>, a highly contagious common chicken virus. He points out a tiny hole in each egg, where the needle went in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87096\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1668px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-1_slide-75255d7d2c567bc0a7d824366d6891dc4640443b.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-1_slide-75255d7d2c567bc0a7d824366d6891dc4640443b.jpg\" alt=\"When the chicks are almost ready to hatch, they go through a vaccination robot. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1668\" height=\"1112\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87096\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When the chicks are almost ready to hatch, they go through a vaccination robot. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But that hole is a risk, because the last thing you want is bacteria getting in and infecting the embryo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, in many hatcheries across the country, these machines also inject an antibiotic called gentamicin, along with the vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's even \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/organic-chicken-and-egg-antibiotics-edition\">allowed\u003c/a> in production of organic chicken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It used to happen here, but all of Perdue's 15 hatcheries now are off antibiotics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.perduefarms.com/Our_Story/Three_Generations/\">Jim Perdue\u003c/a>, the company's CEO, says that weaning wasn't easy. \"You can't do this overnight,\" he says. \"You really got to work hard at it. And that's why it's an exciting thing, because it's the culmination of a lot, a lot of effort.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to this point took 12 years, Perdue says. When they first tried it, a lot of chicks got infections and died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says the company learned, over the following years, how to make sure the hens laying these eggs were healthy, and that their eggs were clean as they arrived at the hatchery. \"You can't have dirty eggs coming into the hatchery and be successful at a no-antibiotic hatchery,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Stewart-Brown, Perdue's hatcheries are working better now, antibiotic-free, than they ever did before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_87097\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1779px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-2_slide-49ed18901f3dd8e91079d71d74befe2f5f89b7c6.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/09/hatchery-2_slide-49ed18901f3dd8e91079d71d74befe2f5f89b7c6.jpg\" alt=\"At left, CEO Jim Perdue inside the company's hatchery in Salisbury, Md. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\" width=\"1779\" height=\"1186\" class=\"size-full wp-image-87097\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At left, CEO Jim Perdue inside the company's hatchery in Salisbury, Md. Photo: Dan Charles/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Public health advocates, such as \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/about/experts/gail-hansen\">Gail Hansen\u003c/a>, a veterinarian and senior officer with the Pew Charitable Trusts, gave Perdue a round of applause Wednesday. \"From the public health point of view, to not use gentamicin in the eggs is a big step,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hansen and others have been campaigning against the use of antibiotics in farm animals because it can increase the risk that bacteria will evolve to become \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/08/29/antibiotic-use-on-the-farm-are-we-flying-blind/\">resistant to antibiotics\u003c/a>. This, in turn, can make human infections harder to treat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other poultry companies have also stopped using antibiotics at some hatcheries, but Perdue appears to be the first to make all of its hatcheries antibiotic-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/12/11/250239604/drug-companies-accept-fda-plan-to-phase-out-some-animal-antibiotic-uses\">has been pushing\u003c/a> meat producers to reduce their antibiotic use in all stages of their animals' lives — not just at the hatchery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, a few days after eggs go through that vaccination robot, little yellow chicks emerge. Within a few hours, they'll be on their way to farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On those farms, some of Perdue's chickens will get antibiotics in their feed — but only ionophores, a class of antibiotics that humans don't take. A few flocks — fewer than 5 percent, Perdue says — are likely to get sick; they may get antibiotics in their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But an increasing number will get no antibiotics at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stewart-Brown says the company is still learning how best to grow chickens without antibiotics. It costs more, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But consumers\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/02/19/americans-want-antibiotic-free-chicken-and-the-industry-is-listening/\"> seem willing to pay\u003c/a> a little more for chickens that Perdue says were raised using \"no antibiotics, ever.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/87093/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics","authors":["byline_bayareabites_87093"],"categories":["bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035","bayareabites_34"],"tags":["bayareabites_11521","bayareabites_621","bayareabites_11270","bayareabites_13092","bayareabites_12328","bayareabites_10921"],"featImg":"bayareabites_87094","label":"bayareabites"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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