Issue Position: Antibiotics in Food

Issue Position

ANTIBOTICS IN FOOD
U.S. inspectors recently started using more sensitive tests to detect antibiotics in pork, part of a stepped-up effort to ensure meat safety after a government report last year suggested consumers might be at risk from harmful drug residues. While a small, but growing, amount of meat products are touted as being free of antibiotics, most meat isn't.

Livestock owners feed millions of pounds of antibiotics such as penicillin each year to cattle, hogs, chickens and turkeys to prevent disease and promote rapid growth. Conventional beef and pork are supposed to meet strict limits on levels of these drugs.

Stop the abuses of sterile genetically modified food. Protect our bee populations.

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