{"id":3416,"date":"2014-04-04T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/04\/exclusive-merck-wants-to-test-zilmax-on-240000-cattle-but-beef-industry-resists\/"},"modified":"2014-04-04T17:55:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T17:55:16","slug":"exclusive-merck-wants-to-test-zilmax-on-240000-cattle-but-beef-industry-resists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/04\/exclusive-merck-wants-to-test-zilmax-on-240000-cattle-but-beef-industry-resists\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Merck wants to test Zilmax on 240,000 cattle but beef industry resists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) \u2013 Merck & Co Inc wants to feed its controversial feed additive Zilmax to 240,000 U.S. cattle to prove it is safe. Merck plans to conduct the biggest ever test of its kind in an effort to reintroduce the weight-adding drug into the United States and Canada after suspending sales last August. I can\u2019t afford to give away a steer, let alone hundreds.\u201d Cargill Inc and Tyson Foods Inc, two of the world\u2019s largest beef processors, told Reuters their stance on Zilmax had not changed since last autumn, when they stopped accepting cattle fed the drug following reports it may cause lameness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By P.J. Huffstutter and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) \u2013 Merck &#038; Co Inc wants to feed its controversial feed additive Zilmax to 240,000 U.S. cattle to prove it is safe. Merck plans to conduct the biggest ever test of its kind in an effort to reintroduce the weight-adding drug into the United States and Canada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/localhealthcareaz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}