Animals, just like humans, can suffer from disease. Healthy animals mean healthy food. NOAH believes it would be a rejection of our responsibility towards the production of healthy food to deny animals access to medicines which keep them healthy. Animals need antibiotics too.
Advice on managing the phase out of antibiotic growth promoters - see the BPEX website (www.bpx.org/technical/publications/freepublications.asp) Published in December 2004 'Managing the withdrawal of antibiotic growth promoters from pig feeds' and 'Managing the withdrawal of antibiotic growth promoters from pig feeds - a checklist'
