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Tyson Told to End an Antibiotic Claim

By

STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

Published: April 23, 2008

A federal judge issued a preliminary
injunction Tuesday ordering


Tyson
Foods to withdraw advertisements
claiming its chickens are “raised without


antibiotics
 that impact antibiotic resistance in
humans.”

Tyson said it would appeal the decision.

The ruling was made by Judge Richard D. Bennett in the United States
District Court in Baltimore.

Two competitors,


Sanderson
Farms and Perdue Farms, had
objected to the ads by Tyson and said Tyson had injected its eggs with
antibiotics and used antibiotic molecules in its feed. 

Sanderson Farms said it was not saying the use of the treatments “is bad,
because we do that also, but we’re saying to use those products in your
hatchery and your feed and to label that as raised without antibiotics is
just not truthful,” said Lampkin Butts, president of Sanderson. 

On Tuesday, Tyson maintained that its claim was truthful. 

“The claim we’re making is ‘raised without.’ And our consumer research
would say that ‘raised without’ in the consumer’s mind, is from hatchery
to when they buy the chicken in the store,” said Dave Hogberg, senior
vice president for consumer products at Tyson.

Consumer groups said that the question over antibiotics in the eggs was
minor, but the ads were still misleading.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/business/23tyson.html?_r=2&ex=1366776000&en=c30cea555567a11f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin