Recent studies reveal that antibiotic drugs used mainly in animals are showing up in public waters.

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See "Factory Farming in the Developing World," May/June 2003, p. 10

Recent studies reveal that antibiotic drugs used mainly in animals are showing up in public waters (Colorado State University), that there is a connection between the use of antibiotics in food animals and antibiotic resistance in bacteria taken from humans (Centers for Disease Control), and that people breathing the air in industrial...