Over the past 100 years, antibiotics have worked miracles and saved millions of lives. However, in recent years, antibiotics have become increasingly ineffective as micro-organisms have evolved to resist them. This is known as antibiotic or antimicrobial resistance.
For decades, antibiotics were used in livestock production, the reasons being twofold: to treat and prevent health problems such as respiratory diseases and other bacterial infections, as well as to promote faster growth. This overuse and misuse of antibiotics has resulted in further accelerating the resistance to antibiotics. The acceleration of resistance means that the same infections
