Work with livestock producers to improve husbandry practices to improve animal health and welfare, and to minimize the need for routine antibiotics use on farms (e.g., biosecurity, vaccination, hygiene, and animal welfare practices that include avoiding overcrowding and excessive group size, reducing stress, enabling natural behaviors, maintaining good air quality and avoiding mixing).
Include total weight in kilograms, types of antibiotics administered and reason for administration (by species), and audit compliance against this policy using independent third-party verification and/or certification schemes.
The FDA estimates that animal agriculture accounts for 70 percent of all U.S. antibiotic use. Antibiotics, even those important to human medicine, are frequently used for rapid growth promotion in livestock and poultry and to prevent illness in animals living in cramped and unhealthy conditions.