Antibiotics: Prevention out – treatment in?

The banning of collective and preventive antibiotic treatment of animals is advocated by the European Parliament’s Environment and Public Health Committee (COMENVI). That equals ‘attempting to cripple EU agriculture by over-restriction of the use of antibiotics’, David Burch explains. I think most people would agree that antibiotics should not be used ‘to improve performance (i.e. growth promotion) or compensate for poor animal husbandry’ but it does not take into account infe