The World Health Organization is urging countries to restrict the use of antibiotics in food animal production. Photo: TNS
The World Health Organization is urging countries to restrict the use of antibiotics in food animal production.
Food producers in many countries feed low-dose antibiotics to farm animals to encourage the animals to grow bigger and faster, which, in return, contributes to the antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
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