CLIPP
General
CLIPP
is the French professional Rabbit Council, which has established a plan for the
reduction of antimicrobial use in rabbits. Part of this plan was to install an
indicator to follow-up the antimicrobial use in rabbit farms. A sample representing
about 75% of French rabbit farms voluntarily report data since 2011 in the
frame of the technical-economic data collection performed by the French applied
research and development institute (ITAVI) and supported by governmental funds.
Data collection
Data are collected at the batch level (e.g. n = 4152 batches from 587 farms in 2018).
Animal subcategories: Two are distinguished: mother rabbits and fattening rabbits.
Input: Info on the treatments [in the form of the calculated Index of Frequency of Treatments with Antibiotics (IFTA)] can be provided by vets, farmers as well as technicians. As no animal population is used for standardisation of the usage, no animal numbers need to be reported for the analysis.
Animal subcategories: Two are distinguished: mother rabbits and fattening rabbits.
Input: Info on the treatments [in the form of the calculated Index of Frequency of Treatments with Antibiotics (IFTA)] can be provided by vets, farmers as well as technicians. As no animal population is used for standardisation of the usage, no animal numbers need to be reported for the analysis.
Analysis
Treatments
are directly converted to the IFTA, an indicator developed in collaboration
with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and based
on counts of actual number of treatment days reported in relation to the
rearing period length in days.
Benchmarking & Reporting
Collective references are calculated at the
national and production organisation level and are made available for
professionals. Individual farm results can be compared to these references.