Public unaware of agricultural medicine

27 April 1999

Public ‘unaware’ of agricultural medicine

ANIMAL medicines do not get the credit for producing healthy food, claims Philip Lowndes, new chairman of the National Office of Animal Health (NOAH).

Mr Lowndes, who is also chief executive of Novartis Animal Health, claims environmental lobby groups win over public opinion with “emotional” arguments.

NOAH is also critical of the animal medicines sections of the recent report by the House of Commons Food Standards Committee.

• Brown backs feed antibiotics ban, FWi, 14 December, 1998
• MPs urge drugs ban on farm animals, FWi, 30 April, 1998
  

• The Herald 27/04/99 page 26