Antibiotic use in animals

摘要

Deja vu was the overwhelming reaction I had to the feature on strategies to reduce the use of antibiotics in animals (The Pharmaceutical Journal 2014;293:517). When I was an assistant secretary of the former Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB), responsible for the administrative arrangements of the practice committee and its four specialist subcommittees, I was also given the task of acting as secretary of the joint veterinary pharmaceutical committee. Membership comprised high-level representatives of the Society, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, British Veterinary Association and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. One major project was to prepare a submission to the joint committee on the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry and veterinary medicine.