The FDA bans injecting chicken eggs with antibiotics as a human health threat but backs down when industry groups — known collectively as ‘Big Chicken’ — squawk.

Alarming new data from the Public Health Agency of Canada suggests that widespread off-label use of cephalosporin antibiotics in poultry hatcheries is triggering human resistance to the class of antibiotics.

Seven years after Canadian experts called for tighter rules governing unrestricted imports of unapproved and untested antibiotics used in meat production due to worries that their use contributes to antibiotic …