Companies are being urged to act on antibiotics in food supply chains to help tackle the spread of untreatable infections from animals to humans
A post-antibiotic age in which common infections and minor injuries can kill is too frightening to contemplate. Yet it is a very real possibility for this century, says the World Health Organisation (WHO).
To help slow the emergence of bacteria resistant to antibiotics we need to reduce our dependence on antimicrobial drugs and drastically cut their misuse and overuse in humans and animals, say experts.
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