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Gillibrand backs limiting antibiotics in meat

Originally published: July 5, 2013 9:08 PM
Updated: July 5, 2013 9:55 PM
By DELTHIA RICKS delthia.ricks@newsday.com

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With half of all meat and poultry estimated to be contaminated with drug-resistant bacteria, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand supports two key bills that would end the nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in animals slaughtered as food.

About 80 percent of all antibiotics sold by the pharmaceutical industry in the United States go to animals processed as food, which amounts to an estimated 30 million...

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