(NaturalNews) Researchers at Johns Hopkins’ Bloomberg School of Public Health and at Arizona State University have discovered traces of a banned antibiotic in poultry byproducts, which seems to indicate producers are evading 2005 regulation prohibiting its use in treating chickens and turkeys.

The scientists said they detected fluoroquinolones, which are antibiotics used to treat a broad spectrum of bacterial infections in people, as well as other over-the-counter drugs and residues in feather meal, known as a common additive to livestock feed for chickens, pigs, cattle and fish.

The government, via the Food and Drug Administration, banned use of the antibiotics in the production of poultry seven years ago over rising concern about the spread of bacteria found to be resistant to antibiotics.

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