History of the use of antibiotic as growth promoters in European poultry feeds.

By J. Castañón. Poultry Science, 2007

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Use of antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feeds has been permitted in the member states of the European Union during the last 50 yr. However, concerns about development of antimicrobial resistance and about transference of antibiotic resistance genes from animal to human microbiota, led to withdraw approval for antibiotics as growth promoters in the European Union since January 1, 2006. This report analyzes the history of European legislation regarding the use of antibiotics in poultry feeds, since the first harmonization by Directive 70/524 until Regulation 1831/2003 deleted these substances from the European Register of additives permitted in feeds. The European support to recommendations of the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Organization for Animal Health for a ban on antimicrobial use in animal feeds is expected to favor other countries also phase these substances out.

Subfields: Animal Science and Zoology

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• Food Animals and Antimicrobials: Impacts on Human Health (2011, background): “One of the first bans on AGP use was that imposed on tetracycline by the European Common Market in the mid1970s (39).”
• Alternatives to antibiotics for maximizing growth performance and feed efficiency in poultry: a review (2017, background): “Antibiotics have been supplemented in animal feed at sub-therapeutic doses to improve growth and feed conversion ef fi ciency and to prevent infections for more than 60 years (Castanon, 2007).”
• Antibiotic Use in Poultry Production and Its Effects on Bacterial Resistance (2018, background): “The main reasons for the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals include prevention of infections, treatment of infections, promotion of growth and improvement in production in the farm animals [7, 8].”
• Antimicrobial resistance: A global emerging threat to public health systems (2017, background): “Currently, several countries including the USA permit the use of growth promotants in animal feeds with the consequences on the international trade (Castanon, 2007) with trading partners and competitors, such as the European Union, New Zealand, and South Korea, that have implemented restrictions on ”
• The Economic Costs of Withdrawing Antimicrobial Growth Promoters from the Livestock Sector (2015, background): “Avoparcin was banned in Denmark in 1995 and Germany in 1996 arguing that this glycopeptide antibiotic produces resistance to glycopeptides used in human medicine (Castanon, 2007).”