Save Our Antibiotics

The long-planned campaign to protect antibiotics for use in human medicine, by restricting their use in farming, was launched with the publication of its first report in November 2011.

The founding members of the Save Our Antibiotics alliance are Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), the Soil Association and Sustain. Support from other organisations will be warmly welcomed.

Contact Jeanette Longfield for more information on jeanette@sustainweb.org

Publications

Fluoroquinolone use in poultry and antibiotic resistance in people
16/11/2012
A briefing paper prepared by the Soil Association for the alliance.

Case Study of a Health Crisis: Human health under threat from overuse of antibiotics in farming
17/11/2011
Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans. The report links this rise to the fact that nearly 50% of all antibiotics are used in farming and argues that one of the fundamental causes of food and animal-related antibiotic resistance is factory farming.

News

Human health risk from farm antibiotics
16/11/2012
The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics is calling on Minister of State for Agriculture, David Heath MP, to ban the use of fluoroquinolone antibiotics in poultry production to reduce the risk of antibiotic resistance in campylobacter and other infections in humans.

Farm antibiotics increasing the threat of untreatable human diseases
17/11/2011
A new report Case Study of a Health Crisis finds there has been an alarming rise in new farm superbugs, especially MRSA and E. coli that are passing to humans.