A new report on antimicrobial use in the US poultry industry shows significant reductions in the use of medically important antibiotics in chicken and turkey production.
The report from Mindwalk Consulting Group, based on data that represent up to 93% of annual US broiler chicken production and 82% of US turkey production, shows a substantial drop in the use of nearly all classes of medically important antibiotics from 2013 through 2017, regardless of the route of administration. There was also a shift to greater use of antibiotics that are not medically important.
“That is a lot of antimicrobials being removed from the production system,” project lead Randall Singer, DVM, PhD, founder of Mindwalk Consulting Group and a professor of epidemiology in the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences at the University of Minnesota, told CIDRAP News.
Reductions tied to regulations, consumer demand
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See also:
Aug 5 Mindwalk Consulting Group report
Aug 5 Mindwalk Consulting Group executive summary
Dec 19, 2018, CIDRAP News story “FDA reports major drops in antibiotics for food animals”
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