CAFos and Public Health: Risks associated with welfare friendly farming
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In-feed Antibiotics Conventional poultry farming systems often include subtherapeutic amounts of antibiotics in the feed to prevent disease and improve production performance. In contrast, organic poultry producers can not, by law, include antibiotics in the feed. Interestingly, advocates for both organic and conventionally raised poultry have each claimed that the absence or presence of in-feed antibiotics results in reductions in foodborne pathogens such as E. coli and Salmonella.
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