McDonald’s said Wednesday it aims to serve up more antibiotic-free meat at its restaurants around the world.
The world’s largest burger chain said it will work toward limiting the use in cattle and pigs of antibiotics important to human medicine, a significant move because McDonald’s is the biggest purchaser of beef in the country and one of the largest buyers of pork.
It also said it will stop using chickens raised with antibiotics important to human medicine within 10 years around the world. The Oak Brook-based burger chain, which has 14,000 U.S. restaurants and 36,000 locations worldwide, last year phased out that type of chicken meat in the U.S.
McDonald’s suppliers are still allowed to use a type of antibiotic not used to treat humans, called ionophores.
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