date:May 14, 2012
per year according to the report. Around 41 percent of the byproduct is used in domestic beef production, 26 percent in dairy, 5 percent go to swine and poultry, and 22 percent heads overseas for livestock feed.
There is not a lot of data on antibiotics residues in distillers grains and it's not clear whether the byproduct might be contributing to antibiotic resistance.
In 2008, FDA tested and analyzed 45 samples of distillers grains and found antibiotic residues in 24 (53 percent) of them, in