Tag: antibiotics

On 29th June a group of experts attended a roundtable event co-hosted by the Alliance to Save our Antibiotics and the Food Research Collaboration at City University, and chaired by Professor Tim Lang. 

Fluoroquinolones are antibiotics classified by the World Health Organization as ‘critically important in human medicine’ due to their importance for treating infections such as Campylobacter, Salmonella and E. coli. There have long been concerns that their introduction to veterinary medicine (in 1993 in the UK, and earlier in some EU countries) might undermine their effectiveness […]