Global poultry groups adopt antimicrobial use stewardship principles

The International Poultry Council (IPC) announced that eight organizations are endorsing the council’s antimicrobial use stewardship principles. The principles guide poultry producers to avoid the use of antimicrobials, but when needed, the principles ensure that antimicrobials are being used with wise stewardship.

Four key principles include:

Taking a risk-based approach to understand specific use of antimicrobials,
Adopting management practices to reduce the need for antimicrobials,
Using antimicrobials only in compliance with national authorizations, and
Antimicrobials critically important for human medicine should be used for therapeutic purposes only and under a supervising veterinarian’s diagnosis and oversight.