BLOG: Antimicrobial use in pigs – where is it going?

The European Commission is setting up a Focus Group under DG AGRI to look at the reduction of antibiotics in the pig sector, so where are we and where should we be going? This is a more difficult question than most commentators would suppose. Antimicrobials are used in pig production to treat or prevent infections that are out there on the farms. We do not use antibiotic growth promoters in the EU, so they are not part of the equation. However, pig production is always a balance of health and we