Concerns rise over antiobiotics concentrations in dried distillers grains

In Kansas, Agweek is reporting that the FDA is finding antibiotics contamination in numerous samples of dried distillers grains. The antibiotics are used by ethanol manufacturers to control the development of harmful bacteria and can increase ethanol production rates by up to five percent – or 50 million gallons across the entire US ethanol production.

However, university researchers are saying that the use of antibiotics could lead to the mutation of antiobiotic-resistant bacteria, that could eventually creat a threat to human health.

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