Veterinary & Animal Tech · Recorded milestone
Antibiotics in animal feed
Recorded year1950
Thomas Jukes and Robert Stokstad find low doses of antibiotics make chickens and pigs grow faster, a practice later linked to drug-resistant germs.
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- PenicillinRecorded · 1928enables
- StreptomycinRecorded · 1943enables
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.