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Monday, October 10, 2016
Out with antibiotics, in with vaccines: American integrators, government seek to reinvent livestock farming
• America's gradual, incrementalist approach to phasing out livestock AGPs takes a large step forward with the banning of antibiotics used in human medicine for AGP use in 2017 • Encouraged by booming antibiotic free meat sales amid flat, d ...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Nutreco advocates alternative strategies to cut antibiotics in food production
Nutreco CEO Knut Nesse made a case for substantially reducing the use of antibiotics in food production during the UN High-level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance in New York and the ONE Health Antibiotic Stewardship Summit hosted by Elan ...
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Livestock antibiotics: What you may not want to hear
• Everywhere from America to China, human disease outbreaks caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria have been traced back to integrated farming operations using AGPs • Alongside known human health effects, antibiotics have been used to tran ...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016
Cargill survey: US, Brazilian consumers prefer beef raised without antibiotics
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Sunday, August 21, 2016
Young piglet feeding in relation to a more cautious and restricted use of (feed) antibiotics
Antibiotics in feed is often the lowest cost option to promote the health of pigs and to prevent bacterial diseases. In new born piglets and weanling pigs health is most at risk compared to later stages of life. From all age categories of p ...
Friday, August 5, 2016
Chile salmon farmers aim to reduce antibiotics use
Several Chilean salmon producers have embarked on a project that aims to reduce the use of antibiotics in the aquaculture sector by at least 50% by 2018.
Wednesday, June 8, 2016
G20 Agriculture Ministers commit to fight antibiotics resistance
The European Commission welcomed the commitment by the G20 Agriculture Ministerial Meeting to support sustainable agriculture for ensuring global food security and to fight antimicrobial resistance, including the phasing out of antibiotics ...
Monday, June 6, 2016
Elanco launches alternative to shared-class antibiotics in poultry industry
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Monday, May 30, 2016
Antibiotics in Aquaculture - Use, Abuse and Alternatives
The aim of this chapter is to present information about current knowledge regarding antibiotic use in aquaculture systems. This will include basic information, for example, mechanisms of action and resistance, the role of antibiotics in dis ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Malaysian association calls for local ban of antibiotics use in animal feed
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Thursday, March 10, 2016
Cargill eliminates 20% of shared-class antibiotics used for beef cattle
Cargill is eliminating 20% of shared-class antibiotics, those deemed important for human medicine and farm animals, from its four feed yards in Texas, Kansas and Colorado, US, and four additional feed yards operated by Friona Industries, wh ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Cargill reassures commitment to reducing antibiotics in poultry at IPPE
At the 2016 International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, Georgia, Cargill announced that since 2009, a total of 77 in vitro and in vivo trials on additives including essential oils, probiotics, yeast derivatives and mediu ...
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Philippines warns vs abuse of antibiotics on dairy cattle
The Philippine National Dairy Authority has warned dairy cattle raisers not to abuse the use of antibiotics and anti-fungal drugs, saying the bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites in their animals might develop anti-microbial resistance (A ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
Updated guide to use of antibiotics in food animals now out
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Antibiotics use issue comes to fore, again
A study on the use of antibiotics in food animals recommends the use of vaccination and make immunisation cheaper for farmers to discourage the use of antibiotics.

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