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Brazil's Official Gazette (DOU) published regulation No. 1 on January 23, prohibiting the use of the antibiotics tylosin, lincomycin and thiamulin, classified as important to human medicine, as growth promoters in slaughter animals.
"The proposed ban is a measure to prevent and control antimicrobial resistance, which is one of the greatest challenges to public health today, with a major impact on human and animal health, and to increase veterinary supervision of the use of these substances, which will continue to be authorized for veterinary use for the treatment, prevention and control of animal diseases," according to statements by the general coordinator for veterinary medicines, José Ricardo Lôbo.
The measure complies with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations and the WHO/OIE/FAO tripartite position calling on countries for urgency and priority in banning the use of important antimicrobials as growth promoters in human medicine.
January 23, 2020/ MAPA/ Brazil.
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