在欧盟禁止使用四种抗菌素作为饲料添加剂的指令正式生效前的两个星期,挪威政府宣布撤消对杆菌肽锌用作饲料添加剂的限制。作为欧盟成员国的这一举动,使得人们对欧盟本来就倍受争议的禁药令增添了更多的疑问。由挪威三大政党(劳动党、保守党和自由民主党)共同提交的议案声称,欧盟不充许杆菌肽锌作为饲料添加剂完全是出于政治因素。有科学证据表明,杆菌肽锌在作为饲料添加剂50多年后,没有产生任何的负面影响。议案重申谨慎使用抗菌素作为饲料添加剂的必要性。 Two weeks before the EU banned the use of four antibiotics as feed additives, the Norwegian government announced the lifting of restrictions on the use of bacitracin zinc as a feed additive. The move as a member state of the European Union has raised even more questions about the EU’s already controversial ban on drugs. The motion jointly submitted by the three major Norwegian political parties (Labor, Conservative and Liberal Democrats) claimed that the European Union’s failure to grant bacitracin zinc as a feed additive was entirely political. There is scientific evidence that bacitracin zinc did not produce any adverse effects after more than 50 years as a feed additive. The motion reiterated the need for cautious use of antibiotics as feed additives.