Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) has had to take its responsible antibiotics use courses online after it was…
The UK government has recently published the annual Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS) report for 2019. In 2019, sales of veterinary antibiotics…
A Northern Ireland research initiative into antibiotic usage has shown “early promising results”, with initial indications suggesting it has “considerable potential” to improve usage…
The latest antibiotic usage figures for the UK pig industry show that levels remain unchanged last year, despite significant disease challenges. According to…
Labelling products as “Antibiotic-free” has the potential to mislead the consumer by implying that meat or milk not marketed as such contains antibiotics,…
For the last two years, 30 forward-thinking farmers have participated in multiple action-groups across South-West England, aiming to reduce their use of on-farm…
Queen’s University Belfast is to establish a dedicated research facility to investigate a new technology with the potential to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR).…
British farming bodies have been hailed for their work to reduce antibiotic usage in the industry at the Antibiotic Guardian awards ceremony on Wednesday.…
