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"Madam President, it is very clear that there is cross-party agreement on concern around antibiotic resistance. However, given what the Commission has just said – that we have data from 10 Member States and that it is not yet available to us – we really are talking about concerns about which we do not have detailed facts. We need that information.
I would like to see a league table of Member States’ usage of drugs per head of animal population, so that we can actually look at countries which adopt best practice and benchmark them against others that are not. I do not mean to point the finger, but rather to allow those Member States who might be overusing antibiotics to improve their animal husbandry practices.
It is also right to say that farmers do not use antibiotics willy-nilly; they use them when animals are sick. Antibiotics are costly and therefore, farmers do not just use them as they would give an animal a drink of water.
We need to be a bit balanced in this debate. Let us get the information. We look forward to the strategy in November to help us avoid this growing problem for the European Union and its animal and human population."@en1
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