Table 4.

Examples of identified ‘at‐risk practices’ (source: ANSES (2014))

	Practices to be abandoned without delay	Practices to be abandoned over time
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