BLOG: Eradication of diseases – to reduce antibiotic use

The EU’s DG –Agri’s European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) produced an extensive report on ‘Reducing antibiotics in pig farming.’ In the committee stage, we spent much time looking at various options and one of these, of which I was a keen advocate, was the eradication of endemic diseases that had infiltrated many of our herds, such as PRRS virus, enzootic pneumonia (EP), caused by Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus pleuropn