RUMA News

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…

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…

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…

RUMA has been forced to issue a clarification following a number of misleading media reports covering the launch of the Government’s new AMR strategy published…

A focus on animal health and disease prevention within the UK Government’s new cross-departmental antimicrobial resistance (AMR) action plan, launched today (24 January) by Secretary…

Professor Sharon Peacock CBE, Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), has joined the Independent Scientific Group which…

Twelve months after industry-led targets for antibiotic use were identified for all main farm livestock species in the UK, a review of progress has been…

RUMA welcomes the latest antibiotic resistance surveillance report from the Food Standards Agency (FSA), published today. The positive news is that levels of antimicrobial resistant…

RUMA has welcomed figures released today which show that in the two years since the gamebird sector rolled out its voluntary campaign to reduce antibiotics,…