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Many Italian farmers', veterinarians' and feed manufacturers' associations have signed a document in favour of the rationalization of the use of antibiotics.

The White Paper contains a synopsis of presentations given by 13 human health, animal health and environmental health scientists and professionals.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine released its third annual report summarizing 2011 sales and distribution data of antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.

The first decisions under this new law were the Decree on Veterinary Medicinal Products and the Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products.

There was variation in sales of veterinary antibiotic in 2011 for some of the individual food-producing species, pig only products increased by 15 tonnes and poultry only products decreased by 27 tonnes in 2011 compared to 2010.

Urgent action must be taken to fight them, by developing new drugs, using existing ones more carefully and improving animal husbandry.

Stéphane Le Foll, French Minister of Agriculture, presented the guidelines of his Ministry with respect to the sensible use on antibiotics in veterinary medicine.

Of the total sales in the 19 countries, the major proportion, expressed as mg/PCU, was accounted for by tetracyclines (39%), penicillins (23%) and sulfonamides (11%).

During the last 5 years, the exposure of pigs to antibiotics has fallen a 28.8%.

The use of antibiotics in Dutch livestock farms has gone down by 51 percent in the last three years.

The new rules provide an incentive to make sure that medicine is given only to individual animals in need of treatment.

MEPs vow to promote prudent-use guidelines aimed at reducing non-essential and inappropriate exposure to antimicrobials in human and veterinary medicine, livestock farming, agriculture, aquaculture and horticulture.

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe publishes new leaflets on responsible use of antimicrobials. Two short, easy-to-read leaflets summarise crucial guidance.

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) has welcomed the decision to prohibit the advertising of antimicrobials directly to animal keepers from 2013 in a bid to reduce antimicrobial resistance.

Significantly more pigs at slaughter were found to be infected with the so-called pig MRSA.

In order to maintain the positive results, the Fødevarestyrelsen has decided to introduce a small reduction in the maximum level of antibiotics.