Sales of veterinary antibiotics in the UK are at the lowest level ever recorded, in a report published by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate on 1 November. The figures, published in the latest UK-Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS) Report, show that sales of antibiotics for use in food-producing animals fell by nearly 10% in the last year and have more than halved since 2014. Sales of the highest-priority antibiotics due to their critical importance to human health remain at extremely low levels.
Antibiotic usage in swine in 2022 decreased nearly 17% from the year prior and was at 71.8 mg/kg. The use of highest priority critically important antibiotics in swine was at 0.01 mg/kg, down 67% from the year prior.
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