KFC to change antibiotic policies for its chickens
Drugs in food supply lead to drug-resistant infection epidemic in humans
Efforts to manage a national health crisis will be getting a little help from an unlikely source – a fast food restaurant chain.
Kentucky Fried Chicken—the largest chicken-on-the-bone quick service restaurant in the U.S.—has committed to phasing out chicken raised with antibiotics important to human medicine in its U.S. stores by the end of 2018. The announcement follows a national call to action launched by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) nearly a year ago that urged the company to improve its antibiotics policies.