Antibiotic Related Publications

ANTIBIOTIC RELATED PUBLICATIONS

VMD Code of Practice on the Responsible Use of Medicines on the Farms

Strategy for Developing and Implementing a Programme of Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals in England and Wales (revised July 2008)

Success and Output from the Surveillance Strategy Document as of July 2008

Overview of Antimicrobial Usage and Bacterial Resistance in Selected Human and Animal Pathogens in The UK 2004 Report

Soil Associations letter to the Government raising issues about the use of antibiotics in animals and antibiotic resistance in humans dated 20 December 2006

Government Response

Defra's Strategy for Developing and Implementing a Programme of Surveillance for Antimicrobial Resistance in Animals in England and Wales (34 Pages, 151 Kb)

Updated pages in the strategy (3 Pages, 14 Kb)

Defra response to BBC 1's Real Story programme on the use of antibiotics in animals on 15 August 2005 (2 Pages, 19 Kb)

VMD's Commentary on the Soil Association's Press Release Dated 18 January 2005 on Government Failure to Cut the Use of Farm Antibiotics (2 Pages, 19 Kb)

VPC Working Group Report on Antimicrobial Resistance (9 Pages, 121 Kb)

Government Response (4 pages, 90 Kb)

VMD's Commentary on the Soil Association's Press Release Dated 1 September 2003 on Antibiotic Use in the Pig Industry (4 Pages, 38 Kb)

VMD Response to Soil Association Press Release Dated 27 May 2003 (3 Pages, 9 Kb)

Sales of Antimicrobial Products used as Veterinary Medicines, Growth Promoters and Coccidiostats in the UK:

2007 (36 Pages, 285 Kb)
2006 (37 Pages, 240 Kb)
2005 (35 Pages, 428 Kb)
2004 (36 Pages, 907 Kb)
2003 (38 Pages, 930 Kb)
Revised Antimicrobial Growth Promoter Sales Data, 1998 - 2003 (1 Page, 65 Kb)
2002 (30 Pages, 2,356 Kb)
2001 (31 Pages, 874 Kb)
2000 (13 Pages, 39 Kb)
1999 (10 Pages, 27 Kb)
1993-1998 (9 Pages, 25 Kb)

VMD Response to Comments on the Sales Figures by the Soil Association and Sean Poulter in a Daily Mail Article on 14 April 2003 (4 pages 15 Kb)

Last updated: 20/12/07

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