Hybu Cig Cymru – Meat Promotion Wales (HCC) and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) are the latest organisations to join the Responsible Use of Medicines in…
July 29, 2019
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July 26, 2019
Quality Meat Scotland
Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) is the public body responsible for promoting the Scotch Beef PGI, Scotch Lamb PGI and Specially Selected Pork brands in the…
July 26, 2019
Sheep and cattle make progress on antibiotic-use ‘metrics’
A new standardised way to measure the amount of antibiotics used on-farm have been announced by the Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group (SAGG), a sub-group of…
July 2, 2019
Specialist in zoonotic disease joins scientific group
Nicola Williams, Professor in Zoonotic Bacterial Disease at the University of Liverpool, is the latest expertto join an independent scientific group which advises on the…
June 28, 2019
RUMA welcomes farming industry wins at 2019 Antibiotic Guardian awards
A record number of entries for the Animal Health, Agriculture and Food Supply category in the 2019 Antibiotic Guardian Awards culminated in Kite Consulting and…
May 30, 2019
RUMA welcomes further fall in UK pig sector’s antibiotic use
The latest antibiotic usage data for the UK pig sector has been announced today (30 May) by AHDB, showing further reductions throughout 2018 to 110…
May 20, 2019
Farm medicines conference line-up to include leading U.S. investigative journalist
Some of the farming industry’s biggest challengers have been announced as speakers at this year’s Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) conference, to be…
March 31, 2019
Response to BBC Countryfile story on ionophores
The BBC’s misrepresentation of ionophore coccidiostats in the media today is disappointing, not least because of the important and entirely legitimate role coccidiostats play in…
February 1, 2019
Auctioneers and dairy beef businesses support 2019 #ColostrumIsGold
The Livestock Auctioneers Association (LAA) and two of the UK’s biggest integrated beef rearing businesses, ABP Blade Farming and Meadow Quality, have announced their support…
January 31, 2019
RUMA response to the 2019 One Health report
We welcome the “UK One Health Report: antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance in animals and humans” report published today (31 January), a long-awaited review of…