Gundersen Specialist Says Feds Right to Focus on Antibiotics

The feds appear to be making the right moves regarding the use of antibiotics.

At least it seems that way to infectious disease preventionist at Gundersen in La Crosse, Marilyn Michaels. She says Americans need to take seriously the amount of antibiotics in the food we eat because there’s plenty of the germ killers used in the production of meat, likely contributing to increasing levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

The rapid rise of super bug bacteria has led to an antibiotic summit in D.C. this week along with an ongoing federal push to get meat producers to phase out antibiotics as a way to promote growth in their animals.