Antibiotics crackdown
2 Sisters eradicated from its poultry production all antibiotics prioritised by the World Health Organisation as critically important to human health.
The move, announced in April, preserved the effectiveness of antibiotic use for people by avoiding the risk that their frequent application helps foster antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In December antibiotics usage came under scrutiny again after a gene that makes bacteria resistant to colistin – the antibiotic used when all others fail – was found in E. coli from pigs at three different UK farms.
