On Tuesday 22 February, Julien Denormandie, the French Minister of Agriculture, issued a ministerial decree banning the import and marketing in France of meat and meat products from animals that have received growth-promoting antibiotics from 22 April 2022.
The European Union has banned the use of antibiotics as growth promoters in farm animals since 2006 for European production. The EU has extended this ban through Regulation 2019/6 on veterinary medicines, which came into force on...