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…
February 1, 2019
RUMA News
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…
January 26, 2019
Additional statement concerning the communication of new Government AMR strategy
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…
January 24, 2019
New Government AMR vision welcomed by UK farm livestock industry
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…
January 14, 2019
Eminent medical researcher joins RUMA scientific group
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…
November 16, 2018
New report shows progress in achieving farm antibiotic targets to reduce, refine & replace
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…
November 13, 2018
Response to FSA surveillance report on antimicrobial-resistant E. coli in meat
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…
October 24, 2018
Gamebird producers slash antibiotic use
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,…
October 24, 2018
Further antibiotic reductions in farming welcomed amid calls for better cattle and sheep data
A fall of 18% in sales of all antibiotics used to treat UK farm animals last year, and 29% in sales of highest priority critically-important…
October 19, 2018
Latest ESVAC report highlights overall progress as well as UK efforts to reduce antibiotic use
While UK farm animal antibiotic sales data for 2016 have been out for almost 12 months, the European Medicines Agency’s Eighth ESVAC report on Sales…