Bulgaria Cattlemen's Union calls on MEPs to vote against ban on antibiotics

The National Union of Cattle Breeders in Bulgaria (NSGB) announced in a letter to European and Bulgarian institutions against the ban on antibiotics on livestock farms. The letter was addressed to Bulgarian MEPs, the chairman of the parliamentary agricultural committee Plamen Arbovski, the caretaker Minister of Agriculture Hristo Bozukov and the director of the BFSA Hristo Valchanov with a request for support. The NSGB asks what we will do with sick animals when the great reduction in antibiotics used in livestock farms becomes a reality. According to the union, this will trigger the suitcase trade in medicines that will be imported from neighboring non-EU countries. The Union of Cattle Breeders recalls that the Federal Association of Veterinary Practitioners - Germany, has started collecting signatures from owners of animals of all animal species against the large-scale ban on the use of many antibiotics used to treat animals. "On the eve of the final vote in Brussels in ...