21.04.2009

Feed Antibiotic Ban

Californian farmers and ranchers would be prohibited from routinely dosing healthy farm animals with antibiotics under a bill getting its first level of approval on 21 April in the state Senate.
SB416, authored by state Majority Leader Dean Florez, D-Shafter, chairman of the California Senate Committee on Food and Agriculture which approved the bill 3-1, would have the prohibition in place by 2015. As early as 2012 public schools would be prohibited from serving fish, poultry or meat that had been routinely treated with antibiotics.