Antimicrobial drugs for use in livestock domestic sales by drug U.S. 2022

This statistic depicts the domestic sales of antimicrobial drugs for usage in livestock in the United States from 2020 to 2022, by drug class. Domestic sales for sulfonamides amounted to around 312,000 kilograms of active ingredient in 2022.

Domestic sales of antimicrobial drugs for use in livestock in the United States from 2020 to 2022, by drug class (in 1,000 kilograms)

Drug class	2020	2021	2022
Aminoglycosides	322.73	339.11	373.61
Cephalosporins	26.26	27	29.49
Fluoroquinolones	24.18	24.38	25.13
Ionophores	3,619.26	4,199.25	4,182.14
Lincosamides	147.03	177.7	197.4
Macrolides	433.39	524.19	567.66
Penicillins	762.89	619.84	618.51
Pleuromutilins	161.72	328.94	176.88
Sulfonamides	282.57	301.69	312.19
Tetracyclines	3,948.75	3,916.86	4,056.48
NIR*	720.69	645.87	630.77

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Release date

December 2023

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United States

Survey time period

2020 to 2022

Supplementary notes

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).
kg = 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.
Only includes exports of FDA-approved, US-labeled antimicrobial drugs approved for use in food-producing animals.
* NIR = Not Independently Reported. Antimicrobial classes for which there were fewer than three distinct sponsors actively marketing products domestically are not independently reported. These classes include the following: Amphenicols, Diaminopyrimidines, Fluoroquinolones, Polymyxins, and Streptogramins.

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