VETSTAT—the Danish system for surveillance of the veterinary use of drugs for production animals

Stege, Helle; Bager, Flemming; Jacobsen, Erik; Thougaard, Annemette

doi:10.1016/s0167-5877(02)00233-7

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“…The data include information on animal species and age group (Nielsen, 2011). Vetstat data originate from pharmacies, veterinarians and feed mills, but the veterinarian writes the prescription in all cases (Stege et al, 2003). The prescription is recorded together with information about the veterinarian, herd, and type of drug, and with information about the quantity of medicine and disease group.…”

Section: Databasesmentioning

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Assessing animal welfare in sow herds using data on meat inspection, medication and mortality

Knage-Rasmussen

Rousing

Sørensen

et al. 2015

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This paper aims to contribute to the development of a cost-effective alternative to expensive on-farm animal-based welfare assessment systems. The objective of the study was to design an animal welfare index based on central database information (DBWI), and to validate it against an animal welfare index based on-farm animal-based measurements (AWI). Data on 63 Danish sow herds with herd-sizes of 80 to 2500 sows and an average herd size of 501 were collected from three central databases containing: Meat inspection data collected at animal level in the abattoir, mortality data at herd level from the rendering plants of DAKA, and medicine records at both herd and animal group level (sow with piglets, weaners or finishers) from the central database Vetstat. Selected measurements taken from these central databases were used to construct the DBWI. The relative welfare impacts of both individual database measurements and the databases overall were assigned in consultation with a panel consisting of 12 experts. The experts were drawn from production advisory activities, animal science and in one case an animal welfare organization. The expert panel weighted each measurement on a scale from 1 (not-important) to 5 (very important). The experts also gave opinions on the relative weightings of measurements for each of the three databases by stating a relative weight of each database in the DBWI. On the basis of this, the aggregated DBWI was normalized. The aggregation of AWI was based on weighted summary of herd prevalence's of 20 clinical and behavioural measurements originating from a 1 day data collection. AWI did not show linear dependency of DBWI. This suggests that DBWI is not suited to replace an animal welfare index using on-farm animal-based measurements.

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Assessing animal welfare in sow herds using data on meat inspection, medication and mortality

Knage-Rasmussen

Rousing

Sørensen

et al. 2015

Animal

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“…In 1995, the amount of antimicrobials prescribed for therapeutic use in livestock was reduced by 45%, following legal interventions: Most important were actions taken in 1995 to increase compliance with the Cascade Rule (Executive Order 142/1993) and the restriction of veterinarians' profit from sales of prescription medicines (DANMAP, 2009). Even so, use of antimicrobials in livestock, mainly pigs, increased continuously from 2003to 2009(DANMAP, 2009.…”

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Temporal relationship between decrease in antimicrobial prescription for Danish pigs and the “Yellow Card” legal intervention directed at reduction of antimicrobial use

Jensen

Knegt

Andersen

et al. 2014

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

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“…Denmark has the most detailed monitoring system of veterinary medicinal usage in the world (Stege et al, 2003). All prescribed medicines are centrally recorded and for each prescription the type and volume of drug is registered along with herd identification, animal species, age group, indication for use, prescribing veterinarian, etc.…”

Section: Monitoring Of Antimicrobial Usagementioning

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Risk management for the limitation of antibiotic resistance ¿ experience of Denmark

Wegener¹

2006

International Journal of Medical Microbiology

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VETSTAT—the Danish system for surveillance of the veterinary use of drugs for production animals

Cited by 136 publications

References 25 publications

Assessing animal welfare in sow herds using data on meat inspection, medication and mortality

Assessing animal welfare in sow herds using data on meat inspection, medication and mortality

Temporal relationship between decrease in antimicrobial prescription for Danish pigs and the “Yellow Card” legal intervention directed at reduction of antimicrobial use

Risk management for the limitation of antibiotic resistance ¿ experience of Denmark

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