According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, sales of antimicrobial medication approved for use in food-producing animals rose by 22 percent from 2009 through 2014. As the use of antibiotics on farm animals increases, physicians and health experts began to warn of the dangers of antimicrobial resistance. And those calls are only getting louder. According to a 2014 assessment from the World Health Organization: “Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range…
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