date:Dec 24, 2018
The FDA is heralding a drop in antibiotic use in farm animals from 2016 to 2017. This issue is critical to human health, since antibiotic-resistant bacteria are being identified in more and more human food poisoning outbreaks. The World Health Organization warned the medical community about this problem in 2012. At that time, Dr. Margaret Chan said that antibiotic resistance could end modern medicine as we know it.
And that body issued its first report on antibiotic resistance earlier this year