One step at a time

Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time. Monitoring and reducing antibiotic use in the livestock sector plays its part in dealing with the growing issue of resistance. Many countries, particularly those in Europe, have made considerable efforts to curb antibiotic use in food-producing animals, employing a range of stewardship interventions. In Sweden for example, it has been forbidden to use antibiotics for disease prevention or as growth promoters since