85% of chicken produced in Spain goes with a reduced antibiotics plan
85% of the chicken produced in Spain is following a plan to reduce the use of antibiotics, announced Angel Martin, the general secretary of Spain's Interprofessional Organization of the Poultry Industry of Chicken Meat, Propollo.
The program has started three years ago, after representatives of the industry have asked the Spanish Medicines Agency to supervise the biosecurity measures, such as the obligation for farms to have fences, bird nets or the rigorous application of disinfectant liquids to the entry, informs Propollo in an article posted on its webpage.
"If the farms do not have a high degree of biosecurity, it can never reduce the administration of antibiotics", argues Martin. Some of the producers have had to make investments to adapt to these measures, which in their opinion are essential to minimize the possibilities of the entry of diseases on farms and to reduce the use of antibiotics.
Spain is the second European producer of chicken meat behind the United Kingdom, generates about 60,000 jobs, produces more than 11 million animals a week and bills €1.8 million a year. The UK has achieved an 82% ratio in reducing the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry in the last six years.
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