RefA²vi: Towards the formalization of a French professional reference network on the use of antibiotics at poultry farms level
Résumé
Since 2019, in order to meet the expectations of citizens, retailers and public authorities, the RefA²vi professional network has been formalized to produce exposure’s indicators on antibiotics usages at farm level. The first indicator, “nDDkg”, corresponds to the sum of the daily doses administered for all drug presentations. The second, “nCDkg”, is the sum of all course doses or treatments, for all drug presentation. In these two indicators doses amounts are related to the total mass of broilers or turkeys slaughtered (i.e. including untreated flocks) in the population surveyed. The data are collected from volunteers production organizations (POs) that declare all the treatment data they collect, and the production data of their flocks. A consistency check is carried out (e.g. on treatment duration and dates in relation to practices and flocks’ set up and slaughter dates,) and when required, clarifications are requested from POs.