WHO (World Health Organization) Guidelines on Use of Medically Important Antimicrobials in Food-Producing Animals

World Health Organization. 11/06/2017 This 88-page document provides guidelines that present evidence-based recommendations and best practice statements on use of medically important antimicrobials in food-producing animals, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of critically important antimicrobials for human medicine (WHO CIA List). It aims primarily to help preserve the effectiveness of medically important antimicrobials, particularly those antimicrobials judged to be critically important to human medicine and to help preserve the effectiveness of antimicrobials for veterinary medicine, in direct support of the WHO global action plan on antimicrobial resistance. (PDF)

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