Study: Most Dairy Antibiotics Degrade before Reaching Groundwater

Read the full story in Environmental Protection.

In the first large study to track the fate of a wide range of antibiotics given to dairy cows, University of California-Davis scientists found that the drugs routinely end up on the ground and in manure lagoons, but are mostly broken down before they reach groundwater.

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Laura L. Barnes is a librarian at the Prairie Research Institute Library, embedded at the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, and writes for Environmental News Bits.
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