Antibiotic use in livestock farming: Weekly rather than daily reporting of animal losses could make the farm-level treatment frequency appear lower than it actually is: BfR opinion nr. 064/2025 from 18 December 2025

In this opinion, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) has examined how the reporting requirements for animal losses on a farm – daily or weekly – would affect the calculated treatment frequency on the farm in question, specifically: whether reporting animal losses only on a weekly basis would influence the determined treatment frequency or not.