They point out that the use of antibiotics in the salmon industry has reached its lowest level in 5 years | Economy

According to World Health Organization (WHO) the main problem of the abuse of antibiotics in food products is the spread of bacterial resistance that impedes Antimicrobial action

In the case of industrial salmon farming large amounts of antibiotics are used, thereby generating additional resistance in the environment.

It is for these reasons that the Association of Through its third report on sustainability, the Chilean salmon industry (SalmonChile) pointed out that the Antibiotic use in the salmon industry dropped in 2017 to its lowest level in five years.

According to their figures, published by Economía y Negocios, the application of drugs in the industry dropped by 16% compared to 2016, and was reduced to 455 grams per tonne of salmon produced.

They underline this success since, according to their data, the harvests recorded during the year 2017 have increased by 17%, reaching a total of 791.103 tons of salmon.

In addition, SalmónChile ensure that the products used by their companies are also off the list of critical medicines of the World Health Organization (WHO) for human consumption.

They also argued that antibiotics are enforced under strict internal and international standards, in order to avoid traces of the drugs when it reaches the outlets.

According to the badociation, 96% of the antibiotics used in the industry are applied at the stage of fattening at sea, conducted in 92% of cases to avoid infections by a bacterial disease that causes significant losses to Chilean production. [19659004 "There is a lot of mythology about the use of antibiotics, some of them justifiably malevolent."

"I have heard repeatedly that we are under attack, saying that in Norway they do not use antibiotics, which is a half-truth : they do not use them because they have other types of diseases and, therefore, they use drugs that we do not use in Chile.