From Consumer Reports:
With the passage of SB27, California is the first state in the nation to outlaw the routine use of human antibiotics in livestock.
After two years of intense lobbying, consumers scored a victory with a new law in California restricting the use of antibiotics in meat production—a first in the nation. It will go into effect in January of 2018 and prohibits the routine feeding of antibiotics to healthy food animals, including for the purposes of preventing disease or promoting growth. The news was picked up by many media outlets, including LA Times and Wall Street Journal, while our Facebook post reached nearly half a million people. And in another piece of good food news, Subway announced it will stop selling chicken raised with antibiotics. The sandwich chain recently received an "F" in our joint report and scorecard for lack of progress on its antibiotics policies. This decision marks a turnaround for the company, and makes Subway the latest in a series of fast food chains to respond to marketplace demand.
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