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Antimicrobial Use in the Pig Industry

Objective

<p>Aims and objectives:
<ul><li>To identify areas of difficulty around collecting antimicrobial usage data for the English pig herd and trial different methods of collection</li>
<li>To determine what volume of antimicrobials are used in the English pig herd, providing a benchmark to inform the industry of our current standing in comparison to other EU countries</li>
<li>To inform the current debate on antimicrobial usage.</li></ul></p>

Institution
Octagon Services Ltd
Start date
2012
End date
2014