Sales of antibiotics for farm animals in Europe have fallen again, signifying a reduction of over a third between 2011 and 2018. The UK retained…
October 21, 2020
RUMA News
September 26, 2020
UK poultry meat sector still hitting antibiotic use targets
RUMA has welcomed the publication of the British Poultry Council’s ‘Antibiotics Stewardship Report 2020’ containing details of 2019 antibiotic usage data in the UK poultry…
June 1, 2020
Pig antibiotic use results show value of accurate data
RUMA has welcomed the fourth annual release of antibiotic usage data from the UK pig sector, published by AHDB, which shows that use in 2019…
March 6, 2020
New leaders to steer RUMA through ‘emerging challenges’
Catherine (Cat) McLaughlin has been elected new chair of RUMA, the UK agriculture and food industry alliance which promotes responsible use of medicines in farm…
January 31, 2020
New antibiotics advice highlights need for range of veterinary antibiotics to treat disease
New scientific advice issued this week (28 January) by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on risk categorisation of antibiotics for use in animals has been…
October 31, 2019
VIDEO: Third RUMA conference faces up to new challenges
The third biennial RUMA conference held at Sainsbury’s Conference Centre in central London celebrated success, but also examinined some weighty challenges ahead, including resistance to…
October 30, 2019
Targets update shows further progress towards farm antibiotic goals – but with more to do
Two years after industry-led targets for antibiotic use were identified for all main farm livestock species in the UK, a second annual review of progress…
October 17, 2019
Red Tractor change cuts highest priority antibiotics by 92% in study
Changes made to the Red Tractor assurance scheme standards for cattle and sheep last summer are driving further significant reductions in use of highest-priority critically…
October 4, 2019
Farm vaccine use rises in bid to cut antibiotics further
Vaccination of the UK’s calves and sheep against livestock diseases has risen to one of the highest levels in seven years. The rise in agricultural…
September 22, 2019
Farm antibiotics task force refreshed in preparation for new targets
A task force set up by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance in 2016 to identify targets for antibiotic use in UK…