Perdue Foods, the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, said it has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries to address growing concerns about bacterial resistance to the widely used drugs.
The Salisbury, Md.-based company said it invested in cleaner hatcheries that eliminate the need for antibiotics on eggs. The poultry industry often injects eggs with antibiotics while vaccinating them because small holes in the shell can expose the eggs to disease.
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An earlier version of this post said antibiotics are injected to eggs after they are vaccinated. They are typically injected along with the vaccination.
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Perdue is the first major poultry producer to phase out antibiotics in hatcheries, according to the National Chicken Council.
Perdue said antibiotic use is now restricted to treating sick flocks and to control a common intestinal parasite. The company eliminated antibiotic use to promote growth in its birds in 2007. Perdue said 95% of its chickens are now free of so-called medically important antibiotics – antibiotics that have an equivalent in human medicine and therefore raise the risk of creating human resistance.
“We listened to our consumers and we are proud to have developed a responsible program that does not risk the medical effectiveness of antibiotics in human health, provides appropriate healthcare for animals and does not employ growth-promoting drugs,” Jim Perdue, the company’s chairman, said in a statement Wednesday.
Antibiotic use has risen to the forefront in food policy debates. The medical community and consumer watchdogs say the drugs have been over-used to promote growth in farm animals and prevent illness in crowded and dirty environments. As a result, the medicine has lost some of its effectiveness, creating fears of antibiotic superbugs.
The Food and Drug Administration moved last year to phase out the use of antibiotics on farms to promote growth and restrict their use to treating animals for illness. The agency did not address the use of antibiotics on eggs after vaccination.
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“This is good news,” Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports magazine, said about Perdue’s announcement. “They’re responding to the market.”
Hansen said the industry can still do more to prevent the use of antibiotics to treat coccidiosis, a parasitic disease found in chicken intestines.
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Perdue, who died in 2005, was responsible not only for killing billions of chickens but for developing many of the notoriously cruel techniques now used throughout the chicken industry.
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Perdue completely removes all antibiotics from its hatchery, the last step in eliminating the routine of human antibiotics. PERDUE® SIMPLY SMART® and PERDUE® PERFECT PORTIONS® brands are officially No-Antibiotics-Ever products.
The transition is expected to be complete by the end of 2023. The company will add ionophores, which are antibiotics not considered important to human health, into the diets of some of its chickens used to produce fresh products as well as frozen and ready-to-eat branded products, according to The Wall Street Journal.
In 2015, McDonald's introduced an antibiotics policy in the U.S. to only source chicken raised without antibiotics important to human medicine, which we completed nearly a year ahead of schedule. Farmers still use ionophores, a class of antibiotics that are not prescribed to people, to help keep chickens healthy.
From spring, the restaurant is switching from a “No Antibiotics Ever (NAE)” commitment to a “No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM)” approach. Antibiotics are often used in livestock production to promote growth and protect against diseases.
Conservative influencers and politicians are calling for a boycott of Tyson Foods after false claims spread online saying the multinational meat producer is planning to hire 52,000 people who came to the U.S. illegally.
March 7 (Reuters) - Food distributors that sued Perdue, Sanderson and other major chicken producers for alleged price-fixing have agreed to drop their claims after seven years of litigation. The settlement, disclosed in a Wednesday court filing , opens new tab in Chicago federal court, does not include any payments.
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It used the marketing stunt to call out its largest competitor – Tyson Foods – for “go[ing] back to giving their chickens antibiotics before they're even sick.”
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The reality is that well-cared-for chickens rarely become sick and don't require blanket doses of antibiotics to remain healthy, which is why all Smart Chicken products—including both the veg-fed and organic lines—are not administered antibiotics at any point in their lives.
The use of antibiotics on chicken farms not only encourages chickens to grow unnaturally large, unnaturally fast—it also poses a grave threat to human health, in the form of growing antibiotic resistance.
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