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New rules on more responsible ways to produce, sell and use medicated feed to tackle the spread of antimicrobial resistance were informally agreed with Council’s negotiators on Tuesday.

The agreement paves the way for a new system of rules that will improve the availability of these medicines, enhance competitiveness and innovation in the veterinary pharmaceutical sector and contribute to the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Monitoring data from 2016 for a range of veterinary medicines, unauthorised substances and contaminants found in animals and animal-derived food suggest high rates of compliance.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) agreed to step up joint action to combat health threats associated with interactions between humans, animals and the environment.

Antimicrobials are important to safeguard the health of humans and animals, but these medicines need to be used responsibly, including in the agricultural sectors, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva said at a high-level UN coordination meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

At the occasion of the 86th General Session of the OIE, the 181 OIE Member Countries discussed several revisions of OIE international Standards and guidelines resulting in a stronger veterinary supervision of the use of antimicrobials in animals worldwide.

Industry leaders have welcomed latest figures which show the pig industry reduced antibiotic usage in the UK by 28 per cent in 2017, bringing the total reduction in two years to more than 50 per cent.

The Development Law Service (LEGN) has been working on developing a methodology for legislating for AMR to assist countries to tackle this growing problem.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration has published a new handbook on the administration of antibiotics to pigs.

The European Union has just published a report on the progress and future actions of the EU against bacterial resistances.

A two-year project that will assess veterinary health management and veterinary drug use in Vietnamese pig farms has been launched.

Exports are, one year on, the driving force of the sector, with an increase by 8.36% with respect to 2016

The new regulations are part of the implementation of the German Antibiotic Resistances Strategy DART 2020.

The report highlights some emerging issues and confirms antimicrobial resistance as one of the biggest threats to public health, mainly by reducing the effectiveness of treatment options.