Biosecurity

Brexit Britain should lead the way by banning mass antibiotic use in agriculture, says top doctors

Britain should use the opportunity afforded by Brexit to lead the world in banning the routine mass use of antibiotics in farming, the country’s top doctors have said.

The heads of 12 royal medical colleges, as well as the Faculty of Public Health, the British Medical Association and two leading health journals, today call on the Government to step up the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by prohibiting preventative prescription of medicines on animals.

Writing in The Daily Telegraph, they say the UK is now in a “unique position” to introduce a ban.