- There are currently no
  Links in your library.
- Click Here to Learn More

Some articles and publications posted to this website refer to Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health, which has since changed its name to Merck Animal Health.

Raised without antibiotics

Significant changes are occurring in poultry-health programs as traditional antibiotics become less effective after prolonged, subtherapeutic use. Some scientists are concerned that feeding these drugs to poultry and livestock may increase the risk for antibiotic-resistant infections in people.

European regulators have already banned the use of several in-feed antibiotics in food animals. A similar movement is under way in the United States, where consumers are trending toward poultry raised without antibiotics. U.S. legislators have also proposed The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act, which would prohibit the use of several non-therapeutic antibiotics in food animals.

These trends are prompting an increasing number of poultry producers to search for alternative methods of disease control, such as vaccination, better quality nutrition and other management changes. New concepts in poultry, such as the IDEA concept are helping to maximize nutrition and performance in vaccinated broilers being raised without in-feed antibiotics.