Table 4.
Practices to be abandoned without delay | Practices to be abandoned over time | |
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Poultry |
Use of ceftiofur in hatcheries – now stopped Systematic administration of fluoroquinolones to broiler chicks in the first days of life |
Preventive treatment by oral route for pathogenic Escherichia coli in all poultry; Mycoplasma in chickens; Ornithobacterium in turkeys |
Pigs | Preventive or metaphylactic treatments administered to lactating sows to prevent digestive problems in suckling piglets |
Preventive use of polypeptides and aminoglycosides for post‐weaning diarrhoea Preventive use of antimicrobials to control Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae in nucleus/breeder herds, and for disease control of swine dysentery |
Ruminants |
Preventive group treatment against neonatal diarrhoea due to E. coli and Salmonella spp. infections and respiratory infections due to Mycoplasma and Pasteurellaceae Intramammary treatment at dry‐off in dairy cows |