NPPC Tuesday ran a full-page ad in Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, laying out the real facts about antibiotic use in livestock production.
The ad, which included points from Dr. H. Scott Hurd, associate professor at Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine and former U.S. Department of Agriculture deputy undersecretary for food safety, was in response to a Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Farming Washington lobbying and media event on antibiotic resistance and the unnecessary feeding and overuse of antibiotics in livestock.
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