Antibiotics: Valuable, use wisely

Antibiotics should be used wisely in farm animals. Its use can be reduced by implementing good biosecurity, enhanced management practices and natural growth promoters on farms. The discovery of antibiotics in the mid-19th century was a very important scientific achievement with successful widespread application for human medicine starting in the 1940s. Decades of research and development of numerous antibiotics helped to keep bacterial infections under control and save countless lives. Antibiot