Eurasia Economic Union adopts new rules on antibiotics
New maximum permissible levels of residual veterinary drugs in livestock products have been approved in the Eurasia Economic Union (EEU), a bloc of 5 post-Soviet countries. The rules are, primarily, called to protect consumers from feed antibiotics, though their non-therapeutic use remains permitted despite growing fears of superbug.
Eurasia Economic Commission, the EEU governing body, has imposed caps on the residual of 75 veterinary drugs commonly used in the livestock industry. The standards are due to come...