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How China is getting its farmers to kick their antibiotics habit

Worries about antimicrobial resistance and disease outbreaks have pushed farms to decrease drug use and improve hygiene.
  1. Kevin Schoenmakers

    1. Kevin Schoenmakers is a journalist based in Shanghai, China.

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In August 2019, the Chinese government did something it had never done before. Tucked away at the back of a monthly bulletin on veterinary issues, the country’s ministry of agriculture and rural affairs published official figures for the volume of antibiotics being used by the country’s livestock farms. It was the first time the information had been made public.

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Nature 586, S60-S62 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02889-y

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Antimicrobial resistance, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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