17.12.2020

FDA

Domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in food producing animals:
- increased by 3% from 2018 through 2019.
- decreased by 25% from 2010 through 2019.
- Tetracyclines, which represent the largest volume of these domestic sales (4,117,031 kgin 2019), increased by 4% from 2018 through 2019.
More than 6.1 million kilograms of medically important antibiotics sold to US farmers in 2019, an estimated 41% were intended for use in cattle, 42% in swine, 10% in turkeys, and 3% in chickens. While the amount of antibiotics sold for use in chickens fell by 13% compared with 2018 and antibiotic sales for turkeys declined by 4%, sales of antibiotics for swine rose by 9%. The increase for cattle was less than 1%.