The monitoring of veterinary medicinal products focuses on the use of medicinal products in food-producing animals. The focus is on minimising the use of antibiotics in animal fattening. Targeted inspections are carried out on the farms for this purpose. Livestock farms that keep an average of more than 20 cattle for fattening, 250 pigs for fattening, 1,000 turkeys for fattening or 10,000 chickens for fattening are obliged to enter data on antibiotic use in the antibiotics database, from which a therapy frequency index is calculated every six months on an individual farm basis. This may result in measures for the farm, which must be monitored by the veterinary authority.
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