Policy Briefing FOOD CHAIN, NUTRITION AND WELLBEING. A CALL FOR EU COHERENCE. October 2017 INTRODUCTION. The European agro food model is constantly evolving and improving, and its relationship with health issues is becoming growingly important. Usually this relationship is perceived mostly in negative terms, or at least in a quiet unidirectional way – nutrition issues-, […]
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Livestock in the EU: debate on AMR
In September 2021, the EU Parliament has rejected plans to reserve five specific groups of antibiotics for use in humans and largely ban them in animals. Developments concerning the avian flu and African Swine Fever are still closely monitored in the EU.
At national level, a pig backlog and shortage of CO2 and workers are causing a pork crisis in the UK, while The Netherlands have announced radical plans to cut livestock numbers and Ireland is not ruling out a limit on a national livestock herd.
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