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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.

The Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety has detected chloramphenicol in urine samples from pigs.

Dr Bernard Vallat, Director General of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), presented the organisation’s priorities for 2012 in the fight against biological threats.

In the years 2007-2010 the total sales of antibiotics decreased by 23%.

The Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) of Germany announced late last year that they are developing a package of measures to improve monitoring and control of the use of antibiotics in livestock.

The White Paper provides science-based information regarding the use of antibiotics in food-animal production and human health implications relative to antibiotic use.