Veterinary medicines:: Food group cuts ‘critically important’ antibiotics from poultry production

• Localización: Veterinary Record, ISSN-e 2042-7670, Vol. 176, Nº. 20, 2015, págs. 507-507
• Idioma: inglés
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  • THE 2 Sisters Food Group has announced that it will stop using all antibiotics defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as being critically important to human medicine in its poultry production operations.

    Announcing the decision on April 30, the company said that it had not been using three of the antibiotic classes defined as critically important by the WHO – third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and fluroquinolones – for the past two years. The decision to …