Health and animal welfare campaigners say the overuse of antibiotics by UK farmers should be banned.
Hospital and school caterers are not doing enough to stop farmers from overusing antibiotics in their animals, according to campaign groups.Health and animal welfare campaigners analysed 10 UK caterers' policies and found a lack of a ban meant controls on antibiotics could be weak or absent.55% drop in antibiotic use in food-producing animals since 2014
In a report released on Thursday, it claimed the firms had either "weak or non-existent" policies on antibiotic use. "The current situation shows a lack of joined-up thinking," he said. "Defra is proposing legislation to ban the routine use of antibiotics on farms, yet it is concerning that a company that is not making a significant effort, based on what is publicly available, is winning a Defra contract.
Governments across the world have acknowledged that the best way to slow the emergence of superbugs is to restrict the use of antibiotics, both in human and animal health.Antibiotics are widely used on farms to protect animals from disease. But there has been concern that they can be routinely overused by the industry to prevent healthy animals, particularly those that are farmed intensively, from becoming ill.
They pointed out such schemes require farmers to avoid the use of antibiotics unless there is a specific need to treat an illness and even then only under the direction of a veterinary practitioner.
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