World leaders have called for an urgent reduction in the amount of antimicrobial drugs, including antibiotics, used in food systems.
The Global Leaders Group on Antimicrobial Resistance said countries must stop the use of medically important antimicr
A large consignment of Chinese antibiotics suspected to be destined for unregulated use on a poultry farm in Northern Ireland has been seized at a British airport, raising fears of a new food scandal.
The Guardian has learned that medicine, believed
The European parliament has approved a suite of restrictions on the use of antibiotics on healthy farm animals in a bid to halt the spread of “superbugs” resistant to medical treatment.
The latest round of tests by federal scientists found antibiotic-resistant bacteria on nearly 80 percent of supermarket meat in 2015, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Working Group.
The Institute for Global Food Security is to establish a dedicated research facility to investigate a new and cutting-edge technology with huge and exciting potential to reduce harmful chemicals and antibiotics in the food chain. The Centre for Plasm
Under the EU-FORA fellowship program of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), a survey questionnaire on consumers’ awareness and risk perception of antimicrobial resistance was developed. The questionnaire is anonymous and the results will be in
Bacteria from humans and animals continue to show resistance to antimicrobials according to a new report published by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
A report by European food safety and public health authorities has confirmed ‘antimicrobial resistance’ is still one of the biggest threats to human health after the discovery of resistance to a drug not authorised for use on animals in poultry.
Researchers have created an online tool which gives dairy farmers and vets the means to closely measure and monitor their antibiotic use.
Most of the UK’s biggest supermarket chains are falling short on measures to reduce the use of antibiotics in the production of the meat and animal products they sell, campaigners have warned, with potentially harmful impacts on human health.
A new competition for 2018 will make up to £10 million available to UK organisations to work with Chinese partners. The aim is to support novel projects that neither country would be able to conduct within the same timeframe without the other’s exper
The poultry meat sector in the UK and the Netherlands have seen a large reduction in antibiotic use. This is the conclusion from recent reports published by both countries.
In 2016, the Dutch dairy sector realised a further reduction of total antibiotics, compared to the year before. The use of antibiotics in the Dutch dairy sector has been reduced with 3.2%, according to the annual report from MARAN.
Pioneering use of satellite images is helping ESRC-funded researchers cutting survey costs in preventing the spread of drug-resistant bacteria.
Salmon producers in Chile, under pressure from international buyers to reduce the amount of antibiotics they put into their fish, intensified their use of the substances in 2015 from the previous year, government statistics showed on Friday.
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Agriculture experts have hit back at criticism over antibiotic use on farms, calling for stronger regulation within human treatment.
The NFU, Bpex and the
Responsible Use of Medicine in Agriculture alliance (RUMA) have said legislation should focus
