IKB Kip is the Dutch quality assurance scheme covering every chain in the sector. Avia- gen’s Magnus Swalander re- ceived certifica- tion for the re- search facility in 2016 from Hen- nie de Haan, chair of the Dutch poultry producers board.
Food safety is the top priority of IKB Kip, offering tools for op- erational management and thereby helping participants to comply with the legislation, among other things. IKB Kip also creates added value by including non-statutory standards, al- lowing participating companies to show that they go beyond legal obligations and because they want to contribute to a strong sector. Similar systems exist in other livestock sectors which have helped to achieve a 63% drop in antibiotic usage between 2009 and 2018.
Bumpy road Following the same set of EU rules and regulations, the Span- ish trajectory has been very different, albeit the results show good progress (Figure 2). According to the Spanish ministry of health, it is primarily the lack of specific measures focused on reducing antibiotic use that should be considered when look- ing at the increase in sales between 2010 and 2014. Spain began collecting data on antibiotic sales in 2010, under the ESVAC project and on a voluntary basis. In the years that fol- lowed, a system for data collection was put in place, includ- ing the development of a database and its validation. This
enabled more accurate measurement of the use of veteri- nary antibiotics to take place and, above all, for the upward trend that had been maintained since 2010 to be identified. In 2014, Spain launched a comprehensive One Health strate- gy to tackle the problem of antimicrobial resistance: the Na- tional Plan to combat Antibiotic Resistance (PRAN). This strategy laid the necessary foundations to optimise the con- sumption of antibiotics in Spain. However, the ministry argues that the reduction in antibiotic use in animals has been greatly boosted by the REDUCE pro- grammes implemented across various livestock sectors in the same timeframe. These programmes are based on volun- tary agreements in which each sector establishes specific objectives for reducing the use of antibiotics and a specific time frame in which to achieve them, as well as strategies for preventing infections. Among the most important results of this initiative are a 97% reduction in colistin use in the pig sector, as well as a 71% reduction in total antibiotic consumption in broiler farming. Between 2014 and 2019 the overall use of antibiotics in animals was reduced by 58.8%.
EU framework for AMR reduction
The European Union has made great efforts to mitigate the threat of antimicrobial resist- ance. The European Commission’s One Health Action Plan Against Antimicrobial Resistance (2011) marked a major step towards antibiot- ic reduction. Many member states have fo- cused on reducing their use of antibiotics as a result. The European Commission’s action
plan, however, was not legally binding, leav- ing the implementation of the guidelines it set out up to the individual member states themselves, with varying degrees of success. This is about to change, however. On 25 Oc- tober 2018, the European Parliament ap- proved new legislation to ban the prophylac- tic use of antibiotics in farming. The ban will
come into effect next year, on 28 January 2022. On top of this the European Commis- sion adopted the Farm to Fork Strategy in May 2020, a tool to help shape the EU’s path towards sustainable food systems. Its objec- tive is to reduce total EU sales of antimicrobi- als for use in farmed animals and aquaculture by 50% by 2030.
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