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According to the data published by The Consumers’ Protection and Food Safety Federal Office, the amount of antibiotics used in animal medicine has dropped by more than half between 2001 and 2016, going from 1,706 tonnes to 742 tonnes (-56.5%). Between 2015 and 2016, the total amount of antibiotics decreased by 63 tonnes (8%).
Of the total sales of antibiotics in 2016, penicillines and tetracyclines were the most sold ones, with 279 and 193 tonnes, approximately, followed by polypeptides (colistin) and sulphonamides, with 67 tonnes each, as well as macrolides (55 tonnes). From the number of antibiotics classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) as active ingredients with a special importance for human health, slightly lower amounts were commercialised in comparison with the previous year (some 9.3%).
National distribution of the commercialisation of antibiotics in 2016.
Monday, September 11th, 2017/ BVL/ Germany.
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