Foster Farms, the California-based company linked to an outbreak of multi-drug resistant Salmonella Heidelberg that sickened 634 people in 2013 and 2014, is the latest major chicken producer to go antibiotic-free. The company announced Monday
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Responsible Antibiotics Use Standard Introduced for Chicken in School Lunches
Starting next fall, U.S. schools will have a new option for the type of chicken they purchase for school lunches. School Food FOCUS (Food Options for Children in the United States) and The Pew Charitable
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Tyson ‘Striving to Eliminate’ Human Antibiotics in Chickens
Tyson Foods, the largest poultry producer in the U.S., announced Tuesday that it would strive to quit using human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by the end of September 2017. The company, based in Springdale,
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Tyson Announces Removal of Antibiotics From its Chicken Hatcheries
Tyson Foods has announced that, as of Oct. 1, it no longer uses antibiotics in its 35 chicken hatcheries. “Since the antibiotic typically used in hatcheries is important to human health, this is a significant
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Tyson Foods Recalls Chicken Nuggets for ‘Foreign Matter Contamination’
Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale, AR, is recalling approximately 75,320 pounds of frozen, fully cooked chicken nugget products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
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