Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use – where are we?

In Europe the use of growth promoters was banned from 2006 and now in the US, there is a bill likely to be presented to the House of Representatives, effectively to do the same thing. However, in Europe there is a further move to ban the use of antibiotics for prevention of infection, either at a low dose, given continuously or at a high dose, metaphylactically, to control infections – are we going a step too far, misguidedly? I remember in the eighties, an antibiotic tiamulin was approved in