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Deirdre CummingsLegislative Director(617) 747-4319Contact person by emailDeirdre Cummings is MASSPIRG's legislative director, working to protect and enhance consumer rights, health care reforms and...
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Who Flipped the Antibiotics Script
Deirdre CummingsLegislative Director(617) 747-4319Contact person by emailDeirdre Cummings is MASSPIRG's legislative director, working to protect and enhance consumer rights, health care reforms and...
View ArticleSubway needs hard plan for going antibiotic-free
MASSPIRG's David Melly calls on Subway to stop serving meat raised with antibiotics in a letter to the Cape Cod Times.
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Tastes like victory!
Bill WenzelNational Antibiotics Program DirectorBill Wenzel is the national Director of the Antibiotics Program.Read more about Bill WenzelWednesday, October 21, 2015I am excited to announce that,...
View ArticleConsumer Group, Activists Hold ‘Thank You’ Events in Front of Subway
On October 20th Subway announced that it is making the shift to serving meat raised without antibiotics. The sandwich giant will serve only antibiotic free chicken by the end of 2016, with a shift on...
View ArticleConsumers Call on KFC to Help Save Antibiotics and Protect Public Health
Today staff and volunteers of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (MASSPIRG) held an event at a KFC restaurant in Dorchester to announce a campaign calling on KFC to stop...
View ArticleTaco Bell Moves Away From Chicken Raised on Medically Important Antibiotics
Taco Bell just announced that it will no longer serve chicken raised on medically important antibiotics in U.S. locations starting in 2017. The announcement comes amid widespread consumer demand and...
View ArticleSTATEMENT OF U.S. PIRG ON PIZZA HUT’S ANTIBIOTICS COMMITMENT
Pizza Hut announced that by the end of March 2017 it will no longer use chicken raised on antibiotics important to human medicine for its pizzas.
View ArticleActivists Celebrate National Fried Chicken Day by Calling on KFC to Save...
On National Fried Chicken Day, volunteers and staff with MASSPIRG and U.S. PIRG, network of state affiliates, held thirty events in front of KFCs across the country to call on the Colonel of fried...
View ArticleBold action needed to get smart on antibiotics
In the U.S. alone, the CDC estimates that at least 2 million Americans are infected with some form of an antibiotic resistant disease each year, and 23,000 people die as a direct result. Without swift...
View ArticleKFC To Eliminate Use of Medically Important Antibiotics from Chicken Supply
The growing ranks of global health experts who have been alarmed by the rise in antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” have an unlikely new hero: KFC, the fried chicken giant.
View ArticleSubway needs hard plan for going antibiotic-free
MASSPIRG's David Melly calls on Subway to stop serving meat raised with antibiotics in a letter to the Cape Cod Times.
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Tastes like victory!
Bill WenzelNational Antibiotics Program DirectorBill Wenzel is the national Director of the Antibiotics Program.Read more about Bill WenzelWednesday, October 21, 2015I am excited to announce that,...
View ArticleConsumer Group, Activists Hold ‘Thank You’ Events in Front of Subway
On October 20th Subway announced that it is making the shift to serving meat raised without antibiotics. The sandwich giant will serve only antibiotic free chicken by the end of 2016, with a shift on...
View ArticleConsumers Call on KFC to Help Save Antibiotics and Protect Public Health
Today staff and volunteers of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group Education Fund (MASSPIRG) held an event at a KFC restaurant in Dorchester to announce a campaign calling on KFC to stop...
View ArticleTaco Bell Moves Away From Chicken Raised on Medically Important Antibiotics
Taco Bell just announced that it will no longer serve chicken raised on medically important antibiotics in U.S. locations starting in 2017. The announcement comes amid widespread consumer demand and...
View ArticleSTATEMENT OF U.S. PIRG ON PIZZA HUT’S ANTIBIOTICS COMMITMENT
Pizza Hut announced that by the end of March 2017 it will no longer use chicken raised on antibiotics important to human medicine for its pizzas.
View ArticleActivists Celebrate National Fried Chicken Day by Calling on KFC to Save...
On National Fried Chicken Day, volunteers and staff with MASSPIRG and U.S. PIRG, network of state affiliates, held thirty events in front of KFCs across the country to call on the Colonel of fried...
View ArticleBold action needed to get smart on antibiotics
In the U.S. alone, the CDC estimates that at least 2 million Americans are infected with some form of an antibiotic resistant disease each year, and 23,000 people die as a direct result. Without swift...
View ArticleKFC To Eliminate Use of Medically Important Antibiotics from Chicken Supply
The growing ranks of global health experts who have been alarmed by the rise in antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” have an unlikely new hero: KFC, the fried chicken giant.
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