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FDA institutes voluntary rules on farm antibiotics

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a set of guidelines intended to curb the widespread use of antibiotics for livestock, which contributes to the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria (see Nature‘s feature story “MRSA: Farming up trouble“). But some worry that the voluntary nature of the rules — and their many loopholes — will do little to fix the problem. 

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