Use of antibiotics in animals is decreasing
The significant fall in antibiotic use in food-producing animals suggests that the measures taken at country level to reduce use are proving to be effective.
- The significant fall in antibiotic use in food-producing animals suggests that the measures taken at country level to reduce use are proving to be effective.
- Use of a class of antibiotics called polymyxins, which includes colistin, nearly halved between 2016 and 2018 in food-producing animals.
- The report also identifies links between antimicrobial consumption in animals and AMR in bacteria from food-producing animals, which in turn is associated with AMR in bacteria from humans.
- Experts found an association between resistance in these bacteria in animals and resistance in the same bacteria in humans.