Tyson to Appeal Marketing Ban

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NEW YORK Tyson Foods said it would appeal the ruling of a federal judge in Baltimore, who has granted a preliminary injunction against the marketing Tyson has used saying that its poultry products don’t contain antibiotics thought to promote drug resistance in humans.

Last June, responding to what it called “broad-scale consumer demand,” Tyson said that the chicken it sells in supermarkets would be raised without using antibiotics and launched a $70 million campaign aimed at mothers, featuring the tag, “Thank you.”

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