Antibiotic use in pigs – an update

Progress regarding reduction in use is starting to happen even before what health expert David Burch considers ‘the over-restrictive proposed EU legislation’ is finalised for veterinary medicinal products and medicated feed. The European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption (ESVAC, 2017) for 2015 has just been published. The highest users of antibiotics in food-producing animals (F-PA) expressed in tonnes of active substance are summarised in Table 1, and compared with the u