According to a recent report, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) will help reduce the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by prohibiting the use of certain antibiotics in animal food products.

Certain antibiotics used in the production of meat, meat products, milk, poultry, eggs, and aquaculture were outlawed by the FSSAI in October.


The quality of livestock farming in India will improve as a result of the antibiotic ban.

According to GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, this regulatory decision is an essential step to protect public health and curb the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which makes it harder for consumers to treat certain bacterial infections with standard medications.
According to Susmitha Bynagari, consumer analyst at GlobalData, "India needs to regulate the use of antibiotics during livestock farming and production in order to sustain itself in the global market, as it is one of the major producers and exporters of milk, eggs, fish, and poultry meat."

In order to preserve the quality of the exported goods, the nation must also continuously monitor the use of antibiotics in animal production.


"Countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and Singapore also have laws prohibiting the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry feed," Bynagari continued.

By 2030, India has also pledged to cut the use of antibiotics in animal production by 30–50%.
According to a recent GlobalData survey, 73% of Indian respondents stated that their health always or frequently influences their choice of food and drink products, supporting the preference for healthy products among Indian consumers.

According to the report, the demand for safer and more sustainable food products is being driven by this change in consumer behavior.


Francis Gabriel Godad, Consumer Business Development Manager at GlobalData, stated that in order to effectively address the problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the FSSAI must make sure that the prohibition on the use of antibiotics in animal production is rigorously enforced nationwide.

In order to successfully reduce the use of antibiotics in agriculture over the long term and ultimately safeguard public health, a grassroots strategy will be essential, he continued.