Estonia 2016: antibiotic use to stimulate growth in farm animals is banned in the EU

This statistic displays the share of respondents in Estonia in 2018 who were aware that stimulating farm animal growth with antibiotics is banned in the EU. Antibiotics are medications that can kill or hinder the growth of bacteria which cause infections in people and animals. In 2018, 69 percent of respondents in Estonia said that they did not know that using antibiotics to stimulate growth in farm animals is banned within the EU, this was above the European Union average at 58 percent.