India's farmed chickens dosed with world's strongest antibiotics, study finds
This article has more info: <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-game-of-chicken-how-indias-poultry-farms-are-spawning-global-superbugs/article22597845.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/a-game-of-chicken-how-...</a><p>Some highlights:<p>"In India, at least five animal pharmaceutical companies are openly advertising products containing colistin as growth promoters.<p>One of these companies, Venky’s, is also a major poultry producer. Apart from selling animal medicines and creating its own chicken meals, it supplies meat directly and indirectly to fast food chains in India such as KFC, McDonald’s, Pizza Hut and Domino’s."<p>"McDonald’s, KFC, Pizza Hut and Domino’s said the chicken they sourced from Venky’s is not raised on growth-promoting antibiotics and their suppliers follow their policies controlling their use of antibiotics.<p>McDonald’s has pledged to phase out the use of critically important antibiotics by 2018 for markets including the EU and the U.S. — with an extra year for phasing out colistin in Europe.<p>KFC has made a similar promise about its U.S. supply chains. They have promised to do the same in India, but without giving any timeframe.<p>Jubilant FoodWorks (which owns Domino’s) has set a date, of 2019, to start phasing out the drugs."<p>From Venky's wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_H_Group" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_H_Group</a>):<p>"In December 2010, the group launched Venky's Xprs, a fast food restaurant specializing in chicken. The first outlet opened in Pune, India."