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Nonpartisan watchdog finds ‘gaps’ in oversight of antibiotics in agriculture

By Robert Holly | April 4, 2017

The federal government has taken steps aimed at reducing the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, a serious health threat that sickens an estimated 2 million people in the United States each year. But nobody knows if those steps — many focused on monitoring the antibiotics given to cattle, hogs and chickens raised for food — are working.

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