RUMA believes the report Case Study of a Health Crisis misses a great opportunity to help highlight the importance of both medical and veterinary practitioners working together to help preserve the efficacy of antimicrobials for both human and animal health.
In November, a new coalition, under the banner of ‘Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics’ and consisting of Compassion in World Farming, the Soil Association and Sustain, published a report ‘Case Study of a Health Crisis’ which linked antibiotic resistance in human medicine to antibiotic use in intensive farming.
The NFU is a founder member of the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture (RUMA) Alliance and supported RUMA’s response, as the Industry voice, to the coalition’s claims in the report and concluding that the report missed a great opportunity to help highlight the importance of both medical and veterinary practitioners working together to help preserve the efficacy of antibiotics for both human and animal health.
Last week, RUMA, the NFU and some of the other RUMA members, received an open letter from the coalition accusing us of ‘effectively dismissing the concerns and opinion of the world’s leading international body on health matters, the World Health Organisation’.
RUMA, representing the industry, has responded to these latest comments. The NFU fully supports the RUMA response.
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