03 December 2022
Raw antibiotic sales for European livestock production, 2011 to 2020, dropped further and more consistently than they did in the United States. Raw U.S. sales declined by 27.3%, while raw sales for livestock production aggregated across 25 European countries fell by 42.9%. The intensity of use in the U.S. livestock sector as a whole (measured as milligrams per kilogram of livestock) declined 30.4%, while it fell 43.2% among livestock producers aggregated across 25 European countries. In 2020 the intensity of antibiotic use in the U.S. livestock sector was an estimated 170.8 mg/kg livestock, nearly twice as high as the overall rate reported that year for the European livestock sector (91.6 mg/kg livestock).
