Antimicrobial drugs livestock sales by drug class U.S. 2021

This statistic depicts the sales of antimicrobial drugs for usage in livestock in the United States in 2021, by drug class. Domestic sales for tetracyclines amounted to some 3.92 million kilograms of active ingredient that year.

Sales of antimicrobial drugs for use in livestock in the United States in 2021, by drug class (in 1,000 kilograms)

Characteristic	Sales in thousand kilograms of active ingredient
Aminoglycosides	339.11
Amphenicols	52.98
Cephalosporins	27
Fluoroquinolones	24.38
Ionophores	4,199.25
Lincosamides	177.7
Macrolides	524.19
Penicillins	619.84
Pleuromutilins	328.94
Sulfonamides	301.69
Tetracyclines	3,916.86
Not independently reported (NIR)	592.89
Export*	5.54

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Release date

December 2022

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

In kilogram of active ingredient. Antimicrobials which were reported in International Units (IU) (e.g., penicillins) were converted to kg. Antimicrobial class includes drugs of different molecular weights, with some drugs reported in different salt forms.
Includes antimicrobial drug applications which are approved and labeled for use in both food-producing animals (e.g., cattle and swine) and nonfood-producing animals (e.g., dogs and cats).
* Only includes exports of FDA-approved, US-labeled antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.

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