China’s Shanghai Food and Drug Administration contends that Yum Brands’ KFC chain in China was supplied with chicken that contained excessive amounts of antibiotics.
In early January, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a draft guidance that may prohibit specific uses of a class of antibiotics in the major food animal species, which include cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys.
Beginning on October 1, more hospitals will have access to healthier, more sustainably produced chicken, thanks to an agreement between Premier healthcare alliance and Murray’s Chicken of South Fallsburg, N.Y.
A study published in Environmental Health Perspectives states that large-scale organic poultry farms had significantly lower levels of one group of drug-resistant bacteria than their conventional counterparts.
Saffron Road™, the packaged food brand of American Halal Co., recently began shipping eight additional All Natural, Antibiotic-Free, Hormone-Free, Halal Certified frozen foods to Whole Foods Market stores nationally.
Midamar Corp., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is introducing Halal Air Chilled, Antibiotic-Free and Organic Chicken. The chickens are chilled during production with pure, cold air that is circulated throughout the birds.
I don’t consider myself a health foods aficionado (unless the “Stuf” in Double Stuf Oreos is good for you), but we have been trying to make some better choices at
We’ve learned a lot in recent years about the small players who are raising hormone-free, antibiotic-free animals. With interest in such product increasing, we needed to find out as much as we could about the product and the facilities in which hormone-free, antibiotic-free animals are raised.
