UK publishes data on poultry antibiotic usage

The British Poultry Council has published an unprecedented insight into its members’ use of antimicrobials and their ongoing reduction strategies. Its collected data on use – rather than sales – shows downward pressure across all classes of antimicrobial in the 4 years’ worth of data it has published. Legislation changes to antibiotic usage The move is ahead of proposed changes to legislation, which will see all antimicrobial use data recording made uniform across Europe. At present,