Assurance standards drive lower antibiotic use

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Written by Jamie Day

The use of the highest-priority critically important antibiotics (HP-CIAs) in UK ruminant production continues to fall, with the change driven by tighter farm assurance standards. Sales of fluoroquinolones and 3rd and 4th generation cephalosporins for UK farm livestock are already low, having fallen 57% and 38% respectively between 2013 and 2017, notes the Responsible Use […]

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