25/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - With the adoption of the report by French Green member Didier Rod, the European Parliament calls on the Commission to propose, as soon as possible, a comprehensive Community legislative framework to counter anti-microbial resistance. The regulation should aim to restrict the use of anti-infectious agents to purely therapeutic purposes, in all fields (thus ruling out the use of antibiotics as a growth factor in livestock), and to ban the use of...