Keeping food free from resistant bacteria: European Parliament adopts EU law to cut farm antimicrobi
date:Oct 30, 2018
in short, on our health, says Franoise Grossette (EPP, FR), rapporteur.

Thanks to this law, we will be able to reduce the consumption of antibiotics on livestock farms, an important source of resistance that is then transmitted to humans. Antibiotic resistance is a real sword of Damocles, threatening to send our health care system back to the Middle Ages.

The agreement still has to be formally adopted by Council before publication in the Official Journal.

The European Consumer Organization (B

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