Pyrrhic Progress The History of Antibiotics in Anglo-American Food Production

Pyrrhic Progress analyses over half a century of antibiotic use, regulation, and resistance in US and British food production. Mass-introduced after 1945, antibiotics helped revolutionize post-war agriculture. Food producers used antibiotics to prevent and treat disease, protect plants, preserve foo...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick Rutgers University Press 2020
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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