Why reducing antibiotics has been good

Some Western European countries have made some serious steps in the reduction of antibiotics through monitoring and penalty programmes. It is a development which yields both praise and rejection. What exactly did it bring? It happened more than once – enthusiastic advocates of antibiotics explaining to me how the ‘Danish example’ proved to them that reducing antibiotics in animal husbandry is a bad idea. This example refers to a situation in the late 1990s, when Denmark, ahead of t