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Antibiotics in America's favorite meat.

Hello again, I'm R. Analmi, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues. Americans care about most.

Chicken has surpassed beef as the meat of choice for most Americans. Now there's evidence that the

raising of chickens could be a risk to human health. The Reuters News Service has reported

what federal regulators did not know, major poultry farms consistently feed their flocks low levels

of antibiotics. Public health experts call that a recipe

for creating antibiotic superbugs, resistant to one of the miracles of modern medicine. But it's

not illegal and the chicken industry insists the warning is overblown. We'll hear both sides.

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Some major chicken producers are raising their flocks in a way that might create resistance to antibiotics.

That's according to new evidence unknown to regulators at the FDA.

Is it a risk to modern medicine?

We'll hear from public health experts and what of America's top five chicken producers.

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