Antibiotic free meat production Peter Smid Technical Director 27 July 2016
Antibiotic free meat production is a hot topic 2
How hot? Nutreco s CEO Knut Nesse adresses United Nations regarding AMR 3
How hot? Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing public health issues facing the world today. We ve come up with a comprehensive plan to fight it [ ] and we re working to significantly reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry [ ]. Barack Obama US President (March 2015) 4
Annual deaths attribution to AMR by 2050 will exceed other causes 5
What causes AMR? 6
Effect of overuse antibiotics on intestinal flora! Antibiotic Re-infection Diarrhoea Problem description: 1. Curative antibiotics destroys next to pathogens also commensal flora 2. After stopping the antibiotic treatment, re-infection occurs new mortality cases place, wet litter / diarrhea 3. Repeated use / Prophylaxis antibiotics usage triggers antibiotic resistance Microbial overgrowth 7
What causes AMR? 8
What causes AMR? 9
Very few new antibiotics developed 10
Global regulation AGP / Antibiotics usage 11
As we are part of the animal production chain We have a responsibility 12
As we are part of the animal production chain Task of the livestock industry is to reduce inappropriate use of non- therapeutical antibiotics 80 70 Global Antibiotics Use in Humans (in billions of standard units) 70,000.00 60,000.00 Global Antibiotics Use in Animals (in tons) 60 50,000.00 50 40 30 20 10 0 Antibiotics Use - Current Antibiotics Use - Ideal 40,000.00 30,000.00 20,000.00 10,000.00 0.00 Antibiotics Use - Current Antibiotics Use - Ideal Appropriate Use Inappropriate Use Appropriate Use Inappropriate Use 13
And We could even make money out of it! 14
Working towards antibiotic free Also creates new business opportunities and enables us to differentiate from competition 15
What exactly means antibiotic free meat production? Definition of antibiotic free is not the same everywhere. 16
Antibiotics Antibiotics preventative / curative AMGP s (Anti Microbial Growth Promotors) Coccidiostats (chemical / ionophores) 17
Way of thinking Farmers are looking for 1 golden egg type of product, which replaces all antibiotics.. Which doesn t exist.. 18
Is it possible to do? Yes, it is. Trouw Nutrition has already proven it, very successfully, in broilers. 19
Trouw Nutrition partnerships on ABF 20
What is a succesfull approach? Not a 1 product approach. Yet, a 3 way approach 21
3 way approach Nutrition Farm management (Gut) health management 22
What did it bring Of-Tov? 20 points improvement in FCR Substantial increase in market share Substantial shift from frozen to fresh meat Producing antibiotic free, gives your meat and company a better quality image 23
Trouw Nutrition and Of-Tov integration With Of-Tov, we go all the way: No antibiotics No growth promotors No coccidiostats 24
Trouw Nutrition and Of-Tov integration Yet, this requires: Dedication from everyone involved Willingness to invest to some extent Intensive coöperation Bringing nutrition up to top level 25
Where will AMR have the biggest impact? 26
Asia and Africa These are not the regions with the best farms, management and level of knowledge. So, difficult to implement a set-up like with Of-Tov. So, what can we do? 27
It is not always possible to meet all the requirements Does that mean, in that case we should do nothing? 28
What can we do? Step 1. Create awareness, by discussing AMR topic during seminars Experience: people are both really interested, as well as, very concerned 29
What can we do? Step 2. Educate people, what they can do differently: Usually, they see antibiotics as the first an only solution which isn t true 30
Antibiotics most commonly used in Poultry & Swine for mainly enteric/ intestinal problems Reason for antibiotic treatment : example Indonesia Indonesian Animal Drugs and Medicines (ASOHI) Alban et al. 2010 Feed Additives can prevent Enteric/ Intestinal problems! 31
What can we do? Step 2. There is a lot we can do before using antibiotics, with: feed formulation Selko ph, Fysal, Presan etc. Intellibond copper / Intellibond zinc Farm management 32
What can we do? Step 3. Adapt country specific portfolio F.i. seperate broiler finisher concentrate without coccidiostat F.i. start up with Chick-Care for healthier broilers and better start 33
Our values: we CARE 34
We invite you Please, think whether you also want to commit to saving lives. If so, think which actions you could initiate in your area. And discuss this with your area manager 36
Questions? 37