BLOG: Antibiotic bans – past, present and future

Antimicrobial substances have played a very important role in pig production for decades, whether originally used for just growth promotion but also for therapeutic purposes. I am delighted to have been asked to comment on this subject as we are facing another onslaught of regulations in the EU over the next couple of years. Let us hope they have learnt from their previous mistakes. In this column I will focus on what has happened in the past, what the situation is today – and what might be ah