Antibiotic arguments

DG Sanco is coming to the end of their review of antimicrobial use in the EU, shortly, what will be their recommendations? There has been a lot of activity in the Netherlands over antimicrobial use and the demand to reduce use by 50% over the next two years and to ban their in-feed use. Let’s look at some of their problems that they have and see if their solutions might be a guide to DG Sanco. In a survey of isolates of bacteria from various food producing species taken in 2008 (Maran 200