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Originally Posted by liasis

Antibiotics Policy of the
Australian Chicken Meat Industry

Version 2. 26 October 2005
Executive Summary
The primary objective of the chicken meat industry is to produce a healthy food. Chicken meat produced in Australia is healthy and nutritious. Eating chicken meat does not expose consumers to antibiotic residues or antibiotic resistance.
Antibiotics are substances that kill or inhibit the growth of bacteria and related microorganisms and are essential in human and animal medicine.
The use of antibiotics in chicken meat production in Australia is limited to two important functions:

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therapeutic agents (ie applied to treat the clinical symptoms of a bacterial infection)

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prophylactic agents (ie applied to healthy animals deemed to be at risk of infection to prevent disease occurring).

This policy sets out the guiding principles for the chicken meat industry to ensure that:
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development of antibiotic resistance is minimised; and

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chicken meat is not contaminated with antibiotic residues.
The industry funds research into alternatives such as vaccines for the use of antibiotics in chicken production, both at an industry-wide and individual company level. It also universally supports the Australian Government’s National Residue Survey, which conducts regular independent checks of residues of antibiotics in chicken meat in Australia. This testing has consistently shown that chicken meat does not contain residues of antibiotics in Australia.

Would i be right in guessing that this policy was put together by the people who sell heaps of chickens. Or is it the people who sell the drugs that go into the chickens. Be careful with these types of documents they are not always what they seem.