Multi-drug resistance in Salmonella bacteria is high across the EU but resistance to critically important antimicrobials used to treat severe human cases of Salmonella infection remains low, finds a report by two EU agencies.
A German government funded initiative, EsRAM, aims at reducing antimicrobial resistant (AMR) pathogens in broilers and will look at how feed additives can contribute to this goal.
Resistance to widely used antimicrobials, such as ciprofloxacin, was commonly detected in bacteria in poultry, finds a new EU report on antimicrobial resistance in zoonotic bacteria.
Antibiotic alternatives such as pro and prebiotics and other gut health boosting feed components are to be welcomed as long as they don’t simply shore up intensive farming practices, says a leading farm animal welfare organization.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says that the growing use
of antimicrobial agents in food could be damaging human resistance
to bacteria and other microbes.