Antibiotic use in livestock is undergoing increased scrutiny worldwide. Increasing resistance to antimicrobials critical for human treatment has been implicated in the use of antibiotics in livestock, including poultry. Partly due to customer concerns, poultry production with reduced or no antibiotic use has occurred in recent years.
The aim of this conference is to provide the Asian poultry industry and their technical advisers with technical information on why antibiotic use in poultry is being challenged, examples of poultry production with reduced or no antibiotic use in various countries and important poultry health control measures that are essential for poultry production with reduced or no antibiotic use.