Antibiotics: Spinning the data from Denmark

As the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considers restrictions on growth-promoting antibiotics in livestock, stakeholders on all sides of the debate point to evidence from Denmark, where the drugs were banned from chicken and pork operations in the 1990s due to concerns about antibiotic-resistant pathogens. While growth-promoting antibiotics have been banned elsewhere in Europe, Denmark makes a particularly useful test case for several reasons. It has a sizable, industrialised meat indust