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"Mr President, in 1945, Alexander Fleming already feared the excessive use of antibiotics and said the following: ‘Instead of fighting infection, the risk would be that germs learn to resist penicillin and that those same germs would then be transmitted from one individual to another and lead to an infection that penicillin could not cure.’ Well, that is the problem we now face, as the 25 000 deaths recorded by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control each year show. Therefore we now need a comprehensive solution, and I fully agree with our Chair, Jo Leinen, who is calling for further research and development in the pharmaceutical industry in order to find new antibiotics. We have been waiting several decades for the discovery of new molecules and new active ingredients.
I feel it is particularly important for us to control how these antibiotics are used, within human medicine and veterinary medicine alike. We urgently need to set daily consumption levels in the various sectors of livestock farming. Indeed we are starting to find antibiotic residue in meat and in milk, and this has been confirmed by various experts. How can we conceive of giving such food to our children?
Clearly this residue will find its way onto consumers’ plates and will encourage the emergence of resistance. Consequently we need to raise awareness among livestock farmers and technicians of the effects that excessive use of these antibiotics can have, especially since we are aware of the risk of cross-transmission from animals to humans. In this respect we have a responsibility towards our fellow citizens. I say that on behalf of my fellow Members in the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development who are worried and who certainly share the same concerns.
That is why, Commissioner, we await your plan with a great deal of interest, for we are dealing here with a real public health problem."@en1
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