BLOG: UK to monitor antibiotic usage – a simpler model for the EU?

Several member states (MS) have already set up antibiotic usage monitoring systems on pig farms and the UK is about to start. Our Red Tractor Assurance Pig Scheme is introducing the requirement to monitor antimicrobial usage on an annual basis from 1st of October 2014. The UK was one of the first to record annual sales of antimicrobials for veterinary use but it was not able to break it down by species use. As a result, a survey was carried out in the UK by BPEX to come up with a best estimate o