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8 avril 2021 08:41

8 avril 2021 08:41

The Soil Association has always led the way in advocating prudent use of antibiotics, banning routine use and setting high standards of welfare and husbandry to prevent diseases which might require treatment. In recent years, the livestock farming sector as a whole has made huge improvements in this area, showing a 48% reduction in tonnes sold in 2019 compared with 2014 (UK Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS), 2020). Retailers have also started to lead the way in pushing their producers to adopt husbandry methods which use much less antibiotic. For the Soil Association to remain at the forefront of advocating farming methods with the lowest levels of antibiotic usage it was necessary to collect data from licensees across different livestock sectors to try and obtain accurate data on usage. As this data has not previously been collected, it was decided to request licensees to consent for their veterinary practices to provide details of antibiotic purchases to the Soil Association and The George Farm Vets who would process the data. It was hoped that this convenience sample would be representative of Soil Association farms, and to provide a baseline from which to measure usage with ongoing data collection as part of annual certification. The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics supported this work, as no accurate data specific to organic farms across different livestock sectors was currently available and it is hoped that lessons for the wider industry can be learned from the lowest users of antimicrobials.

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• AB - Modalité bio
• FREDO environnement
• FREDO santé animale
• GEO Europe
• GEO Royaume-Uni
• veterinary medicine
• antibiotic
• élevage

02/03/2021

2 mars 2021