nontherapeutic

Adjective

Meaning

Not therapeutic

Unrelated to medical treatment

Examples

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals. Jonathan Safran Foer

During 2007, two federal bills (S. 549 citation and H.R. 962 citation ) aimed at phasing out "nontherapeutic" antibiotics in U.S. food animal production. Source: Internet

Two federal bills (S.742 and H.R. 2562 ) aimed at phasing out nontherapeutic use of antibiotics in US food animals were proposed, but have not passed. Source: Internet

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