A number of important antibiotics should nevertheless be retained for use in animal husbandry, according to a vast majority in the European Parliament.
A Greens motion to make a large number of antibiotics important for treating bacterial infections in animals available only to humans has been voted down.
The European umbrella organization the Federation of Veterinarians in Europe (FVE) is there happy with† Not only because of animal health, but also because, according to the vets, voting down the motion is ultimately better for human health. In the Netherlands, the KNMvD campaigned intensively to prevent the motion of the Greens from being adopted.
In the end, a large majority in the EP voted against the proposal to no longer make the antibiotics in question available for animal husbandry. There will be new rules for the use of antibiotics in animals. These are intended to combat antibiotic resistance in both humans and animals.
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