Page 25 of articles about antimicrobial in Swine news

After a voluntary agreement to abandon the use of cephalosporins in pig production, its use has declined by 99 percent since 2009.

24 percent of consumers said meat raised without antibiotics was not available at the supermarket where they usually shop. Of this group, 82 percent said they would buy it if it were available.

Member countries must to ascertain whether practices in human and animals healthcare may lead to over-prescription, overuse or misuse of antimicrobials.

In the period 2009-2011 the total sales of antibiotics, licensed for therapeutic use in animals in the Netherlands, decreased by nearly 32%.

The federal district court in Manhattan ruled that the FDA must reconsider two citizen petitions that asked the agency to withdraw approval of some antibiotics used in food-producing animals.

To reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock farming, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture plans to further extend the powers of the competent Länder surveillance authorities.

FDA/CVM’s final analysis finds that 4 of the 46 samples were quantifiable in the laboratory for antibiotics.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it is taking three steps to protect public health and promote the judicious use of medically important antibiotics in food-producing animals.

The withdrawal period shall be 28 days for meat from poultry and mammals.

The order prohibits certain uses of the cephalosporin (excluding cephapirin) class of antimicrobial drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys.

The judge’s decision requires the FDA to withdraw existing approvals for the growth promoting use in animal agriculture of two antibiotics – penicillin and tetracyclines.

Only 0.33% of the total number of targeted samples on residues was detected in animals as being non-compliant with EU standards.

Resistance to several antimicrobials was commonly detected in zoonotic bacteria such as Salmonella and Campylobacter which are the main causes of reported food-borne infections in the EU.

Russia, which is banning imports of live cattle from EU countries from March 20, may also ban imports of European pork.

The overall evolution in total tons of active substance (antimicrobial pharmaceuticals antimicrobial premixes) shows a slight decrease of 1.6% from 2009 to 2010.

In the first semester of 2011 the total sales of antibiotics in the veterinary sector were 32% below the level of the same period in 2009.