Perdue Farms announced that it completed the final step away from the routine use of any antibiotics in its chicken production by eliminating all use of animal-only antibiotics. This comes two years after Perdue became the first major poultry company to stop routinely giving its chickens antibiotics also used in human medicine.
“Stopping the routine use of human antibiotics was a big step, and addresses pressing concerns in the medical community,” said Chairman Jim Perdue. “But it didn’t answer the basic consumer question: was this chicken raised with antibiotics? ‘No Antibiotics Ever’ is the only claim we promote to consumers, because it answers all their questions with clarity and transparency. Some of our competitors are promising to reduce antibiotics, and others are trying to tell consumers it doesn’t matter, but our consumers have already told us they want chicken raised without any antibiotics.”