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20.04.17

Environment

Bullying, harassment and physical assault: Abuse faced by inspectors inside UK slaughterhouses

Inspectors tasked with protecting food safety and animal welfare are being bullied out of the job, according to union representatives.

19.04.17

Environment

'A national disgrace': Catalogue of animal suffering at Scottish abattoirs revealed

Reports from the official watchdog log “cannibalism” among chickens, “unnecessary pain” endured by cattle and “massive bruising” on sheep.

24.02.17

Global Superbugs

Use of ‘last hope’ antibiotic soaring in English hospitals

We should be "terrified" that prescriptions of colistin are rising steeply, say experts, as it's evidence of an increase in the most dangerous types of superbugs.

20.02.17

Environment

One in four UK abattoirs fails to meet basic hygiene standards

The breaches mean meat contaminated with bugs that cause serious food poisoning can potentially reach supermarket shelves.

18.10.16

Global Superbugs

How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

There are no checks or regulations in place to stop the NHS buying drugs from factories in India which are helping to create superbugs.

03.10.16

Global Superbugs

How superbug-infected pigs get into Britain unchecked

The Bureau’s investigation has established there is no mandatory screening for live pigs being imported into Britain from Denmark, where MRSA is rife throughout the country’s herd.

28.08.16

Environment

Severe welfare breaches recorded six times a day in British slaughterhouses

Data obtained by the Bureau reveals six severe welfare breaches that subject animals to needless pain and suffering are recorded per day on average at British slaughterhouses.

14.05.16

Global Superbugs

Exclusive: Minister floats tax on antibiotics to tackle drug resistance crisis

Lord O’Neill (pic: Getty) The danger to human health from the world’s antibiotic resistance crisis is “a much more troubling train wreck” than even the great financial crash of 2008, former Goldman Sa...

11.04.16

Global Superbugs

Resistance to key antibiotic used in dangerous food poisoning cases now at record levels

Ciprofloxacin tablets. Photo via Flickr Resistance to a key antibiotic used in the treatment of serious food poisoning cases has reached its highest level for a decade, new figures obtained by the Bur...

11.04.16

Global Superbugs

Get the data: Rising sales of critically important antibiotics

World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva Not all antibiotics are equal. According to the World Health Organization, some classes of antibiotic are so medically important they’ve labelled them...

10.04.16

Global Superbugs

Exclusive: City firms issue major warning to high street food and pub chains over use of antibiotics on supplier farms

City investors issue antibiotics warning to high street pub and restaurant chains A group of powerful City investors who together control more than £700 billion have written to leading fast food, pub...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs that put human lives at risk

Antibiotics banned in US chicken farms a decade ago over links to the spread of potentially deadly bacteria in humans have been used in significantly increased quantities by Britain’s poultry industry

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Critically important to human health: What are fluoroquinolones?

Factory chickens. Photo credit: Viva! Fluoroquinolone antibiotics were developed in the 1970s and first used in human medicine in the 1980s. The drugs are used for treating, amongst other conditions,...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Campylobacter: Poultry industry’s killer legacy

Antibiotics are used on poultry farms to treat and prevent disease (Photo: Ecostorm) Campylobacter has plagued the poultry industry for years, with some studies revealing that as much as two-thirds o...

07.02.16

Global Superbugs

Antimicrobial resistance: what’s the issue, and why is it so important?

The Bureau is investigating drug resistance in the UK

Bullying, harassment and physical assault: Abuse faced by inspectors inside UK slaughterhouses

'A national disgrace': Catalogue of animal suffering at Scottish abattoirs revealed

Use of ‘last hope’ antibiotic soaring in English hospitals

One in four UK abattoirs fails to meet basic hygiene standards

How dirty production of NHS drugs helps create superbugs

How superbug-infected pigs get into Britain unchecked

Severe welfare breaches recorded six times a day in British slaughterhouses

Exclusive: Minister floats tax on antibiotics to tackle drug resistance crisis

Resistance to key antibiotic used in dangerous food poisoning cases now at record levels

Get the data: Rising sales of critically important antibiotics

Exclusive: City firms issue major warning to high street food and pub chains over use of antibiotics on supplier farms

Banned in America, soaring use in Britain: The poultry farm drugs that put human lives at risk

Critically important to human health: What are fluoroquinolones?

Campylobacter: Poultry industry’s killer legacy

Antimicrobial resistance: what’s the issue, and why is it so important?

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