SWEDEN PUSHES FOR UNITY ON EU ANTIBIOTICS REFORMS:
June 8th, 2014
The Swedish government has expanded the scope and ambition of its domestic animal care farm improvement scheme to include creating a "partnership of like-minded European states" willing to back Sweden’s push for EU reforms to check antibiotic use on healthy livestock.Sweden’s rural affairs minister Eskil Erlandsson has attacked an "over-use" of such drugs as growth enhancers.He argues documented scientific evidence from Swedish veterinary experts points to a gross over-use of antibiotics on European farms. Sweden plans to push the EU Council of Ministers and ...
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