Chick-fil-A will soon begin using antibiotics in its poultry.
“To maintain supply of the high-quality chicken you expect from us, Chick-fil-A will shift from No Antibiotics Ever (NAE) to No Antibiotics Important To Human Medicine (NAIHM) starting in the Spring of 2024,” the fast food giant announced Monday.
The Georgia-based eatery joined competitors including McDonald’s and Subway in swearing-off antibiotics altogether in 2014. A decade later, the chain, which also claims it uses only U.S. chickens free of steroids and added hormones, says the reversal on antibiotics won’t lead to a decline in quality.
Chick-fil-A operates more than 3,000 stores and employs more than 35,000 people. The family business began operations in 1946 and established itself as a “billion-dollar brand” in 2006, according to the company’s website.
Its first New York City location popped-up in 2015 in Manhattan’s Garment District. That 5,000-square-foot restaurant is the company’s largest operation in the country.
Chick-fil-A explained in its statement Monday, “NAE means no antibiotics of any kind were used in raising the animal” as opposed to NAIMH, which restricts the use of antibiotics essential to human medicine while allowing for the use of animal antibiotics “only if the animal and those around it were to become sick.”
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