Top Food Companies Respond to Consumer Demand for Responsible Antibiotic Use
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A fact sheet from Nov 2015 istockphoto Top Food Companies Respond to Consumer Demand for Responsible Antibiotic Use Consumers across the United States are demanding meat and poultry sourced from producers who use antibiotics responsibly or not at all—and large producers, restaurants, and other institutions are listening. Following is a list of some leading companies that have committed to using their purchasing policies to be part of the solution to the problem of antibiotic resistance. Meat & poultry Restaurants and food service providers Headquarters Number of locations raised responsibly Au Bon Pain Boston 300 Poultry, sausage Boloco Boston 20 Beef, chicken (dark meat only) Bon Appétit Management Co. Palo Alto, CA 650 Poultry, ground beef BurgerFi North Palm Beach, FL 77 Beef, hot dogs Burgerville Vancouver, WA 46 Beef, poultry, pork Carl’s Jr. Carpinteria, CA 1,495 Beef Chick Fil-A* Atlanta, GA 1,900 Chicken Chipotle Mexican Grill Denver 1,931 Chicken, beef, pork Chop’t New York 32 Chicken, beef, bacon Cosi Boston 115 Chicken Culver’s Prairie du Sac, WI 544 Chicken The Counter Culver City, CA 36 Beef Elevation Burger Falls Church, VA 33 Beef Meat & poultry Restaurants and food service providers Headquarters Number of locations raised responsibly Farmer Boys Riverside, CA 79 Beef Good Times Golden, CO 36 Beef, chicken, bacon Houlihan’s Lakewood, KS 104 Chicken Noodles & Co. Broomfield, CO 330 Pork Panera Bread St. Louis 1,946 Poultry, pork Pret A Manger London 350 Chicken, beef, pork Restaurant Associates New York 100 Poultry, pork Roti Chicago 21 Chicken Shake Shack New York 42 Beef Sweetgreen Washington 36 Chicken, bacon * Chick Fil-A announced in February 2014 that it would switch to serving chicken raised without antibiotics within five years. It has currently converted around 20% of its supply to this type of chicken. Food producers Headquarters Meat & poultry raised responsibly Applegate Bridgewater, NJ Poultry, beef, pork Bell & Evans Fredericksburg, PA Poultry DaBecca Natural Foods Chicago, IL Beef, pork, turkey Estancia Beef San Francisco, CA Beef Evol Foods Boulder, CO Poultry, beef, pork FreeBird Fredericksburg, PA Poultry Luvo Atlanta, GA Poultry, beef MamaMancini’s East Rutherford, NJ Beef and turkey meatballs Mary’s Chicken San Joaquin Valley, CA Chicken Meyer Natural Angus Loveland, CO Beef Miller Poultry Orlandd, IN Poultry Mom Made Foods Alexandria, VA Poultry, beef Murray’s South Fallsburg, NY Poultry Niman Ranch Alameda, CA Pork, beef, lamb Perdue (Coleman, Harvestland) Salisbury, MD Chicken Ranch Foods Direct Colorado Springs, CO Beef Redbird Chicken Englewood, CO Poultry Food producers Headquarters Meat & poultry raised responsibly Saffron Road Stamford, CT Chicken, lamb Smart Chicken Waverly, NE Chicken Springer Mountain Farms Mt. Airy, GA Chicken Thousand Hills Cattle Co. Cannon Falls, MN Beef Tyson Foods, Inc. (Nature Raised Farms) Springdale, AR Chicken White Oak Pastures Bluffton, GA Beef, lamb, poultry Private-label brands raised with Headquarters Number of stores Supermarkets responsible antibiotic use Ahold USA (Giant, Martin’s Peapod, and Stop & Shop) Carlisle, PA 770 Nature’s Promise Delhaize America (Food Lion, Hannaford Bros., Sweetbay, Salisbury, NC 1,553 Nature’s Place Bottom Dollar Food, and Harvey’s) The Great Atlantic & Pacific TeaCo. (A&P, Food Basics, the Greenway Montvale, NJ 320 Food Emporium, Pathmark, Superfresh, and Waldbaum’s) and Mid-Atlantic Country Farms H-E-B Natural H-E-B San Antonio 150 and Central Market Organic Meats Kroger Cincinnati 2,623 Simple Truth Publix Lakeland, FL 1,108 Publix GreenWise Market Safeway Pleasanton, CA 1,326 Open Nature and O Organics Supervalu Eden Prairie, MN 3,400 Wild Harvest Trader Joe’s All Natural Trader Joe’s Monrovia, CA 400 and Trader Joe’s Organic Wegmans Rochester, NY 86 Food You Feel Good About Whole Foods Market Austin, TX 431 All meat and poultry Hospitals, schools, and large institutions A sampling of other places that are also offering meat and poultry raised with responsible antibiotic use • 49ers Levis Stadium • O’Hare International Airport, CIBO Express Markets (Chicago) • Advocate Health Care (Chicago) • Omaha Public Schools (Omaha, NE) • Boulder Valley School District (Boulder, CO) • Overlake Hospital Medical Center (Bellevue) • Burlington Public Schools (Burlington, VT) • Philadelphia Zoo • Chicago Public Schools • Portland Public Schools (Oregon) • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta) • San Diego Unified Public Schools (San Diego) • Fletcher Allen Health Care (Burlington, VT) • Shedd Aquarium (Chicago) • Jefferson County Public Schools (Jefferson County, CO) • St. Paul Public Schools (Minnesota) • Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) • University of California Los Angeles Hospitals • Kenmore Mercy Hospital (New York) • University of California San Francisco Medical Center • Lincoln Park Zoo, Wild Things Cafe • University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle) • McCormick Place (Chicago) • Yankees Stadium, Luvo (Bronx) • Midway International Airport, Premier Restaurant Group (Chicago) • Yellowstone National Park • Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) • National Park Service (Washington) For further information, please visit: saveantibiotics.org This guide is not intended to represent all companies encouraging the responsible use of antibiotics in meat and poultry production. Restaurants and food service providers are limited to those with at least 20 locations. To add your company’s name to this list, please contact [email protected]. The Pew Charitable Trusts is driven by the power of knowledge to solve today’s most challenging problems. Pew applies a rigorous, analytical approach to improve public policy, inform the public, and stimulate civic life..