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New Report on Antibiotics Use in Food Animal Production Released
USAgNet - 07/05/2022
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine Thursday issued a report on “Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Animal Agriculture in the United States.”
It includes data on medically important antimicrobial sales, use, and resistance for cattle, chickens, swine, and turkeys for 2016-2019.
The report found that food-animal producers reduced their purchases of such antibiotics by 26% over the four-year period. Sales of non-medically important antimicrobials dropped by 7%.
For the hog industry, sales of medically important antimicrobials fell by 17.6% from 2016 to 2019.
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