Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics

The Alliance is a coalition of health, medical, environmental and animal welfare groups campaigning to stop the overuse of antibiotics in animal farming.

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Over one million people have signed Avaaz’s recent petition calling on EU agricultural and health ministers to take action on antibiotic use in farming – make your voice heard by signing today

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If you are health professional, representative of a medical organisation, citizens group or environmental NGO, we urge you to join the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and support this critical work. Get in touch.

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We are calling on the UK Government to take the following actions:

  • Set a target for reducing farm antibiotic use by 50% by 2020 and by 80% by 2025 including a target to cut the use of critically important antibiotics by 80% by 2020 and 95% by 2025.
  • Ban all preventative mass medication in feed or water, except for where disease has been diagnosed in some animals.
  • Annual national surveillance data on the human health impacts of antimicrobial resistance.

 

Contact the alliance

Katherine Button
Campaign Coordinator
katherine@sustainweb.org
0203 5596 777 @ASOAntibiotics

Media Enquiries

Natasha Collins Daniel
Press Office Manager – Soil Association
ncollinsdaniel@soilassociation.org
0117 914 2448

Or Lara Richardson
Head of Media - Compassion in World Farming
Lara.Richardson@ciwf.org.uk
01483 521 995

News

Government plans to avoid EU ban on farmers using preventative antibiotics

The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics - convened by Sustain, Compassion in World Farming and the Soil Association - expresses dismay at plans for...

US farms still using antibiotics which are ‘crucial’ for human health

Meat sample tests show that powerful antibiotics which should be reserved for human health are being used on livestock farms across the US despite...

Animals could be dosed with their own antibodies to reduce use of antibiotics on farms

The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics welcomes the treatment but says that the real answer is to improve animal husbandry.

New rules for antibiotics use outside the EU

Countries wanting to import meat into Europe will now have to abide by EU laws on antibiotics.

Big pharmaceutical companies are using social media campaigns to muddy the waters on overuse of antibiotics in farming

Big pharmaceutical companies are using social media campaigns to muddy the waters on overuse of antibiotics in farming.

Resistance to banned antibiotics found in EU meat

A resistance to antibiotics that are needed to treat serious diseases in humans has been found in meat in the food chain according to a European...

Powerful ‘last resort’ antibiotic heavily used worldwide

Farmers are using thousands of tonnes of colistin on healthy chickens to boost their weight.

US farming uses five times as much antibiotics as UK

The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics warn post-Brexit deal-makers not to lower UK farm standards to match US - where antibiotic use is five...

The Alliance was founded by the Soil Association, Compassion in World Farming, and Sustain.

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