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].
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