#antimicrobial-use-in-food-production

Routine and poorly controlled antimicrobial use in livestock and aquaculture selects resistant bacteria that can spread through animals, food, workers, waste and the environment.

Reduce routine antimicrobial demand by improving vaccination, hygiene, housing, stocking practices, nutrition, breeding and veterinary prevention in livestock and aquaculture.

Collect farm-level antimicrobial sales and use data by species, farm, and indication; normalize for animal populations; provide confidential benchmarking to farmers and vets; and require review and improvement plans for persistent high users.

Prohibit medically important antimicrobials for growth promotion and routine group prophylaxis while preserving supervised treatment for animals that are genuinely ill.

Beginning in 2009, the Netherlands combined national reduction targets with farm-level and veterinarian benchmarking, restrictions on critically important antibiotics, mandatory treatment plans and sector-specific anima…

China banned colistin as a growth-promoting feed additive in 2017 after plasmid-mediated mcr-1 resistance was identified in animals, food and people. Researchers compared colistin use, resistant Escherichia coli and mcr…

Denmark progressively ended antimicrobial growth promotion, beginning with specific products and followed by voluntary and regulatory withdrawal across major pig and poultry production. DANMAP (Danish Integrated Antimic…