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  2. Tyson will stop using its ‘no antibiotics ever’ label on chicken

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    About half of US poultry farmers use some form of antibiotics to help keep chickens healthy, the company noted. In many chicken farms, animals are raised in crowded and unsanitary conditions and ...

  3. Tyson Foods Joins Trend to Cut Antibiotic Use in Chickens - AOL

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    April L. Brown/AP By P.J. Huffstutter CHICAGO -- Tyson Foods (TSN), the largest U.S. poultry producer, plans to eliminate the use of human antibiotics in its chicken flocks by September 2017 ...

  4. The antibiotics that Tyson plans to add to some of its chickens' diets are known as ionophores, a Wall Street Journal report said on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. "Based on ...

  5. Antibiotic use in the United States poultry farming industry

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    Testing revealed that chickens fed with a variety of vitamin B12 produced with the residue of a specific antibiotic grew 50% faster than chickens fed with B12 from a different source. [2] Further research confirmed that antibiotic use improved chicken health, resulting in increased egg production, lower mortality rates, and reduced illness.

  6. Bacitracin - Wikipedia

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    As bacitracin zinc salt, in combination with other topical antibiotics (usually polymyxin B and neomycin) as an ointment ("triple antibiotic ointment," with the brand name Neosporin), it is used for topical treatment of a variety of localized skin and eye infections, as well as for the prevention of wound infections. A non-ointment form of ...

  7. Antibiotic use in livestock - Wikipedia

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    A CDC infographic on how antibiotic-resistant bacteria have the potential to spread from farm animals. Antibiotic use in livestock is the use of antibiotics for any purpose in the husbandry of livestock, which includes treatment when ill (therapeutic), treatment of a group of animals when at least one is diagnosed with clinical infection (metaphylaxis [1]), and preventative treatment ...