Fighting anti-microbial resistance in poultry

New ways to reduce pathogen contamination in livestock rearing have been successfully trialled and offer a way forward in the fight against anti-microbial resistance. Working together in an Innovate UK-funded project, Folium Science and the Quadram Institute at the University of East Anglia are using new technology called Guided Biotics that can selectively remove pathogenic bacteria from the food chain. The trial has been looking to tackle Salmonella, which causes more than 90,000 human case