The livestock industry has done brilliantly in recent years in cutting antibiotics usage, and all of us in the industry believe the ruminant sector is now a pretty low antibiotics user. According to antibiotics sales data, the UK is reckoned to be the fifth-lowest user in Europe. The problem is that there is not enough data on usage to confirm this. Many vet practices and other groups have been collating and benchmarking antibiotics use for their farms, but there has been no national database. This is where Medicine Hub comes in.
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