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Article: Antibiotics and chicken

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February 19, 2002
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Sir--Kate Williman's statement (February 15) about meat industry misuse of antibiotics doesn't bear scrutiny.

All antibiotic use in animals is under veterinary control, and in commercial practice is too expensive to use indiscriminately.

Approximately 50 per cent of antibiotics used in New Zealand are applied to animals. Rough calculations show that there are about 17 times as many domestic animals as humans in this country, and about 21 times as much animal body ...

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