Call to keep antibiotics out of the food chain

BEIJING - Government authorities have been encouraged to set up stricter regulations to monitor the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in livestock feed to ensure food safety.

The addition of antibiotics to livestock feed for non-therapeutic purposes is widely practiced by some breeders due to poor breeding conditions and loose regulations, experts said.

"It used to be a commonly adopted method for raising livestock," a leading expert on feed research in Beijing, who declined to be named, told China Daily on Monday.