Antibiotics Rampant in Chilean Salmon
In response to Oceana’s request for access to public information, the Chilean government revealed that the national salmon industry has been using roughly 385 tons of antibiotics, 600 times more than Norway, the main producer of farmed salmon in the world. Approximately a third of the antibiotics reported were quinolones, a family of antibiotic whose use in animals is banned in the United States, an important destination for Chilean salmon.