Fast-food giant McDonald's announced Wednesday it would stop serving chicken raised with antibiotics that are important to human health, as worries grow over resistance to crucial drugs. McDonald's, primarily a hamburger chain but which also sells a number of chicken-based meals, said it has been working closely with poultry farmers to cut back the use of antibiotics. The move will help prod changes by the large industrial chicken suppliers which have fostered widespread use of human antibiotics among growers. McDonald's said that it hoped to implement the new restrictions at its 14,000 US restaurants over the next two years.
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