Perdue Farms says it will no longer be using antibiotics at its egg hatcheries.
Company Chair Jim Perdue described the removal of the antibiotics as part of a 12-year evolution in the way it produces its products.
Over the last twelve years the company has begun providing organic and no antibiotics ever products such as the “Harvestland” brand.
Perdue’s vice president for safety Dr. Bruce Stewart-Brown said 95 percent of the company’s chickens never receive any human antibiotics with the rest only when prescribed by a veterinarian.
The company ended its use of arsenic in its chicken feed as well as eliminating the use of antibiotics for increasing growth in their chickens in 2007.
