Should I be worried about antibiotics in my meat?

The FDA does not allow meat to be sold with traces of antibiotics above strict safety limits. The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service performs scheduled, but random, testing of meat nationwide. Any antibiotics used to keep animals healthy are carefully selected and administered in accordance with industry training and principles. Antibiotics have required withdrawal times, a specific number of days that must pass between an animal’s last antibiotic treatment and the date the meat enters the food supply, to ensure the antibiotics have sufficiently exited an animal’s system.