By Barbara Olejnik
Poultry Times Staff
bolejnik@poultrytimes.com
GAINESVILLE, Ga. — The push toward chicken raised without antibiotics has seen increased growth as more and more consumers are demanding this action and more and more chicken companies are complying.
The National Chicken Council notes that "Chicken producers have proactively and voluntarily taken steps toward finding alternative ways to control disease while reducing antibiotic use phasing out those that are most critical to human medicine."
Driving the move toward antibiotic-free chicken has been the suggestion that antibiotics fed to chickens could result in antibiotic-resistance in humans who. . .

