Antibiotic Food Ban?

A federal advisor warns Canada may ban antibiotics in food if voluntary controls are ineffective. “The pressure from the public on this issue will become important,” said Dr. Marc Ouellette, Canadian research chair on antimicrobial resistance. Ouellette told Blacklock’s that without consensus, “it may become necessary to ban the use of human medicines in food production.”

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