"Innovations" - Business Week 10/11/99, European Edition
"When the Danish Poultry Council voluntarily halted the use of antibiotics in its chicken feed last year, farmers feared they would see a decrease in productivity and an increase in disease in their flocks. Instead, eliminating antibiotics cut costs and increased profits by 25 cents per 100 birds. According to DanPo A/S, a subsidary of Scandinavian Poultry that did the monitoring, no mahor disease outbreaks occurred. In addition, the chickens weighed just as much as birds raised on antibiotics. That's good news for consumers - eliminating antibiotics reduces the risk of exposure to resistant bacteria that could be carried in poultry."