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Costco Wholesale Corporation will stop sourcing its salmon from Chile due to "record levels" of antibiotic use by farmers, according to Reuters. The company will begin sourcing "antibiotic-free" salmon from Norway.

Fast-food giant McDonald's today is announcing new standards for the chicken supplied to its 14,000 U.S. restaurants. While the company isn't going antibiotic-free, McDonald's plans within two years to sell only chicken "raised without antibiotics that are important to human medicine," according to a statement provided to GreenBiz.

Chick-fil-A announced this week that it will stop using meat from chickens raised with antibiotics within five years. The chain said consumer demands sparked the change; Chipotle and Panera Bread have taken similar measures recently. "This ... surfaced as the No. 1 issue for our customers," said Tim Tassopoulos, Chick-fil-A's executive vice president of operations.

Tyson Foods announced plans to eliminate the use of human antibiotics from its U.S. broiler chicken flocks by September 2017.

Fast food restaurant chain Wendy's is reportedly piloting the sale of chicken that does not contain antibiotics "medically important to humans" in select Missouri, Texas, and Florida markets, according to CNBC.

Panera Bread and Chipotle led the fast-food pack by earning A's on the new annual report card from a coalition of public interest groups that annually ranks corporate efforts to remove antibiotics from their poultry, beef and pork supplies. Twelve of the other 25 listed companies also made progress eliminating the drugs, but the report says they need to catch up with the A-listers and pay as much attention to beef and pork as to poultry.

But the cult fast-food favorite opted to change its antibiotics policy last week, in the face of mounting pressure from environmental advocacy groups.

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McDonald's achieved its 2017 goal to phase out the use of medically important human antibiotics in its U.S. chicken supply a year ahead of schedule. The fast food chain also announced plans to remove artificial preservatives and high fructose corn syrup from select menu items.

Panera Bread has been using antibiotic-free meat for a decade, but unlike rival Chipotle, it's struggled to effectively communicate its green credentials to consumers. writes Andrew Marder. The company is introducing a communications strategy touting its produce, donations and community cafes for low-income families. "[T]here's a lot of value in the work that Panera is doing, and it just takes a few good ad campaigns to bring that value to bear on the bottom line," Marder writes.

Starbucks recently updated its animal welfare standards. They include phasing out sow gestation crates and cages for chickens, eliminating the use of artificial growth hormones, and eliminating the use of fast growing practices for poultry. The standards will aso address concerns related to dehorning, tail docking, and castration, and supporting the responsible use of antibiotics.

Panera Bread will transition to 100% cage-free eggs over the next five years, the company said Thursday. Panera will also stop sourcing pork from pigs raised with gestation crates and roasted turkey from birds raised with antibiotics, and boost the amount of beef that comes from grass-fed, free-range sources by the end of this year