Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria represent one of the most serious threats to human health, food security and development in the world today. Antibiotic resistance causes the death of 700,000 people per year worldwide.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has responded by calling for the removal of antibiotics as growth promoters in pigs and chickens. In Canada, 80% of all antibiotics are administered to animals as growth promoters!

The WHO's alarm call convinced Health Canada's Veterinary Products section to open the door to other approaches for maintaining animal health and, consequently, public health. This decision opens the door to Labo Solidago which, for more than 30 years, has specialized in the manufacture of low risk animal health products.

These new standards for animal comfort and health are gradually becoming mandatory in the dairy industry. Faced with stricter rules on access to and use of antibiotics, dairy farmers will have to adapt. For example, the use of preventive antibiotics when cows dry off is being hotly debated and would now only be used to treat infected udders. Soon, the use of antibiotics should be limited to curative care with milk and meat withdrawal.

The Labo Solidago team has developed a unique preventive approach to help breeders manage their herd in an optimal way. The objective is an integrated and practical approach with homeopathic formulas that facilitate the adaptation and anticipation of various problems that arise at different stages of the animal's life. And this, WITHOUT WITHDRAWING MEAT OR MILK!

Main facts

• Antibiotic resistance is one of the most serious threats to global health, food security and development today.

• It can affect anyone, at any age, in any country.

• Antibiotic resistance is a natural phenomenon, but the misuse of these drugs in humans and animals is accelerating the process.

• An increasing number of infections, such as pneumonia, tuberculosis, gonorrhea and salmonellosis, are becoming more difficult to treat as the antibiotics used to treat them lose their effectiveness.

• Antibiotic resistance leads to longer hospital stays, higher medical costs and increased mortality.

The agricultural sector

To prevent and combat the spread of antibiotic resistance, it's possible to:

• give antibiotics to animals only under veterinary supervision;

• not use antibiotics as growth promoters or to prevent disease in animals

• Vaccinate animals to reduce the need for antibiotics and use alternatives to these drugs if available;

• Promote and apply good practices at each stage of production and processing of foods of animal and plant origin;

• Increase on-farm biosecurity to prevent infections by improving hygiene and animal welfare.

https://www.who.int/fr/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antibiotic-resistance