Responsible Antibiotic Use

As a company dedicated to the health and welfare of animals, Elanco Animal Health believes healthy animals are key to solving some of the world's most pressing issues.

We therefore support Responsible Antibiotic Use.

Antimicrobial resistance is a significant health challenge, and animal agriculture can play a role in the solution by reducing the need for medically important antibiotics in farm and pet animals.

Antibiotics are a critically important tool farmers and vets use to ensure the health and welfare of animals, as well as the safety of our food supply. But they’re just one tool. Farmers and vets work closely together to design and implement comprehensive animal health programs that take into account quality diets, clean and comfortable housing, disease prevention and treatment as well as other factors. When antibiotics are used, they must be used responsibly and under strict veterinary guidance.

We are committed - Elanco’s Antibiotic Stewardship

: Elanco has worked with more than 10,000 producers, vets and food chain partners globally to help improve responsible use of antibiotics including:
Creating awareness of pending regulatory changes
Providing counsel on policy creation and the resulting practice changes
Offering analysis of supply chain implications from potential policy changes
Sharing research into consumer perceptions and how to address consumer questions about antibiotics
Delivering health monitoring and tracking data to producers to help them make more informed animal healthcare decisions to potentially reduce the need for antibiotic treatment
Data and the counsel of the Elanco team has helped shape antibiotic policy to establish or enhance responsible use of antibiotics for dozens of protein value chain partners across the globe, as well as helping to ensure the products and tools regulators prefer are used in the food system
: Elanco has convened industry leaders at a One Health Antibiotic Stewardship Summit to identify actions to build veterinary training and capacity where gaps exist globally. The goals of this effort are to:
Identify a self-sustainable model for providing veterinary services in a way that meets the needs of varying sizes and levels of operations plus assuring appropriate antibiotic use
Create recommendations that elevate global veterinary standards through curriculum and certification
Identify gaps in global animal healthcare including pharmacovigilance, and discuss pathways to expand veterinary and para-veterinary capacity and responsibility to meet those needs
: Elanco commits to invest two-thirds of our food animal research budget to quickly evaluate 25 candidates and deliver 10 viable non-antibiotic development projects that address diseases where there are few, or no, alternatives to antibiotics medically important for both humans and animals (shared-class antibiotics).
: Elanco is reinforcing its nutritional health business to protect and improve animal health using the latest science to improve gastrointestinal health and the microbiome. This effort focus on livestock disease prevention using non-medicated feed additives, such as enzymes, prebiotics and probiotics, to reduce the use of conventional antibiotics.

For product related technical queries, contact the Elanco Vets team:

Telephone: 01256 353131, selecting option 1 for technical services

Email: ElancoVets@elanco.com*

*please note this inbox will be checked during the next business day. If you require an urgent response to a product-use query, suspected adverse event or quality complaint regarding an Elanco product, please call 01256 353131 choosing option 1 for technical services. Outside of office hours, your call will be forwarded to our medical answer service and an Elanco representative will call you back. Thank you for your understanding.

Responsible Antibiotic Use

We are committed - Elanco’s Antibiotic Stewardship

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