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Product Europe. E

STUDY Farm animals consumed some 4,700 metric tons of antibiotics in 1999, or 35% of all the antibiotics administered in the EU. Of that amount, 3,900 metric tons were mixed into feed as growth promoters. In 1997, the feed-additive consumption of antibiotics on European farms was a estimated 1,600 metric
tons, but that quantity dropped following the withdrawal by EC of 5 other antibiotics
UPDATE 04.02
AUTHOR European Federation Animal Health
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