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The 2016 report shows that antimicrobial sales decreased from 2015 to 2016, with domestic sales and distribution of all antimicrobials decreasing by 10 percent.

The Directorate-General of Animal Health and Drugs of Italy has financed a multidisciplinary project with the aim of identifying and collecting indicators for the classification of the farms according to the level of risk for the development of antimicrobial resistances.

The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is launching a new global campaign to combat antimicrobial resistance and therefore preserve the capacity of countries to effectively protect animals and humans from infectious diseases.

The aim is to strengthen the prevention and control of antibiotic resistances in stockbreeding. The programme includes the prevention and control of infections in animals.

The workshops aim to spread knowledge to government officials in all EU countries working in the human health and veterinary sectors.

Stop using antibiotics in healthy animals to prevent the spread of antibiotic resistance.

The sector-specific targets were developed over the past year by a ‘Targets Task Force’, facilitated by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance.

Sales of antibiotics for use in animals in the UK have fallen to their lowest level since records began, exceeding a government target to combat the threat of antibiotic resistance (AMR) two years early.

A set of indicators will assist European Union (EU) Member States to assess their progress in reducing the use of antimicrobials and combatting antimicrobial resistance.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) partners, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, released the 2015 NARMS Integrated Report.

Since 2011, the German pharmaceutical industry has the obligation of recording, yearly, the amount of commercialised veterinary medicines, specially antibiotics, and of reporting these data to a central register.

A total of 30 European countries — 29 European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland — submitted data on sales or prescriptions (two countries) of antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) to the European Medicines Agency for 2015.

The goals regarding the decrease in the use of antibiotics have not only been attained but exceeded.