Healthy Animals do not Need Antibiotics: The bans on antibiotic growth promoters in Sweden and in the EU

Last changed: 03 April 2023

The project mapped and analysed contexts and events leading to the Swedish ban on antibiotic growth promoters in Swedish animal husbandry in 1986 and the Swedish efforts contributing to a similar ban being introduced in the EU in 2006.

The aim of this project was to map and analyse contexts and events leading to the Swedish ban on antibiotic growth promoters in Swedish animal husbandry in 1986 and the Swedish efforts contributing to a similar ban being introduced in the EU in 2006.

Why is Sweden a frontrunner regarding responsible use of antibiotics, how were these bans introduced and what were the consequences, were central questions in this project, linking agrarian history to the concept of One Health.