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Antibiotic use in livestock in Europe per kilogram of meat

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Antibiotic use in livestock in Europe per kilogram of meat
Milligrams of active ingredient of antimicrobials sold per 1000 tonnes of food-producing animals, including horses.
Source
European Medicines Agency (2023) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
October 25, 2024
Next expected update
October 2025
Date range
2010–2022
Unit
mg/PCU

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

The European database of sales of veterinary antimicrobial agents provides public access to the data the European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial consumption (ESVAC) project collects on the sales of veterinary antimicrobials in Member States of the European Union and European Economic Area.

Sales, in tonnes of active ingredient, of veterinary antimicrobial agents marketed mainly for food-producing animals (including horses), population correction unit (PCU) and sales in mg/PCU, by country.

Retrieved on
October 25, 2024
Retrieved from
https://esvacbi.ema.europa.eu/analytics/saw.dll?Dashboard
Citation
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European Medicines Agency, European Surveillance of Veterinary Antimicrobial Consumption, 2022. 'Sales of veterinary antimicrobial agents in 31 European countries in 2022' (EMA/299538/2023).

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European Medicines Agency (2023) – processed by Our World in Data. “Antibiotic use in livestock in Europe per kilogram of meat” [dataset]. European Medicines Agency, “European database of sales of veterinary microbial agents (ESVAC) - population corrected units” [original data]. Retrieved December 12, 2024 from https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/antibiotic-use-in-livestock-in-europe