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Qu a l i t y A s s u r a n c e .
Fr om f a rm t o s h o p .
QS – Report 2012
Outlook 2013
%
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
%
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Mean Value
Therapy index per business – pig production
Business A
Business B
Consultancy
by vet
a correct presentation of the current situation. By
means of intercompany comparisons, farmers and
veterinarians can compare their individual antibiotic
use with anonymised data of others. Depending on
their classification, farmers can check and implement
measures to reduce their use of antibiotics.
Keeping the ef fort low
The maintenance of the company data and entry of
supplementary information on sheds and fattening
groups and/or places for the agricultural businesses
is the responsibility of the coordinators. The relevant
data on antibiotics prescriptions is entered by the
veterinarians. As this information already exists in
electronic form in many vets’ practices, automated
interfaces have been set up to facilitate the transfer
of the data to the antibiotics database.
Within a very short space of time, the economic
operators in the QS scheme have set up a practical
instrument for the complete recording of the
prescription of antibiotics in livestock farming. By
doing so, they are making the use of antibiotics in pig
and poultry production in Germany transparent.
Since 1 April 2012, all antibiotics prescriptions in
the 2,600 poultry production businesses in the QS
scheme in Germany have been recorded in a central
database. Data recording in the 25,000 QS-certified
pig production businesses began on 1 September
2012.
More than 1,000 veterinarians and vets’
practices enter all of the relevant data on antibiotics
prescriptions into the database.
Cross-company data basis reveals
individual need for action
The data provide an overview of how many antibiotics
are used in pig and poultry production and enable
Antibiotics monitoring
Showing transparency for consumer protection
2,621
poultry
production businesses
24,968
pig production
businesses
Therapy
index =
per time
unit
Sum of treatment units
Number of animals
QS Antibiotics
Database
1,068
veterinarians
22,799
treatment records entered:
10,058
records for poultry
12,741
records for pig production
As of: 1 March 2013
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Mean Value
Therapy index per business – poultry production
Business C
Business D
Consultancy
by vet
Official
control
Therapy
index
Measure of the intensity
of antibiotics use
=