European Parliament Calls for Tighter Controls on Antibiotics

The European Parliament has called for tighter controls on the use of antimicrobials to fight growing resistance to bacteria.

The European Parliament has called for tighter controls on the use of antimicrobials, including antibiotics, in the European Union, to fight growing resistance to bacteria.

The EP’s non-binding recommendations for the European Commission and member states called for Brussels to invest further in pharmaceutical studies on antibiotics, with the resolution arguing that research has ‘produced few new antibiotics in recent decades’.

The EP also called for proactive information campaigns for the public to prevent them asking doctors for antibiotics when they are not needed, for instance to treat viruses such as colds.

The motion also called for a ban on giving antibiotics to livestock as a prophylactic to ward off pot