Chick-fil-A is dropping its ban on serving chicken that has been raised with antibiotics, 10 years after first announcing the pledge and five years after it implemented it.
“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 chicken chain said.
Under the new standards, Chick-fil-A said that chicken antibiotics could be used, but only if the chicken and those around it were sick.
“If the animal does become ill, it will be treated with antibiotics not intended for humans,” Chick-fil-A said. “In accordance with FDA requirements, all antibiotics must be cleared from the chicken’s system before it is considered available for the chicken supply.”
The new approach “restricts the use of those antibiotics that are important to human medicine and commonly used to treat people,” Chick-fil-A said.
The change will affect Chick-fil-A’s restaurants in the US, Puerto Rico, and Canada, it said.
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