Catering Companies and Antibiotics

New Report:

Catering companies - feeding the antibiotic crisis?

Published in October 2023, this is the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the antibiotic policies of the UK’s leading catering companies.

All ten of these companies supply healthcare institutions or educational establishments in or outside of the UK, with eight out of ten supplying both.

Our aim is to ensure that all of these companies have responsible antibiotic policies to improve farm animal welfare, preserve our precious antibiotics and help halt the antibiotic resistance crisis globally.

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Press release

UK Government must strengthen school and hospital food standards so that catering companies don't feed the antibiotic crisis.

New report reveals the extent of public sector catering company and Government failings, with Defra contracting a supplier with no supply chain antibiotic use policy.

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Caterers assessed, at a glance

Our report shows that :
• 5 out of 10 catering companies surveyed have no antibiotics policy.
• None of the companies currently prohibit their suppliers from using antibiotics for routine disease prevention.
• None of the companies collect any data on their antibiotic use.

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Catering companies - feeding the antibiotic crisis? 2023 Executive Summary

This is the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the antibiotic policies of the UK’s leading catering companies.
All ten of these companies supply healthcare institutions
or educational establishments in or outside of the UK,
with eight out of ten supplying both.

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Catering companies - feeding the antibiotic crisis? 2023 Full Report

October 2023

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