ESVAC data – Antibiotic use dropped 10%

The ESVAC data for 2011 showed that in the 20 European countries that reported for 2010 and 2011 that there was a drop in antimicrobial consumption of 10%, nearly 670 tonnes of active substance. In the meantime, the population correction units (pcus), the measure of animal production, rose by 0.3%. This was indeed surprising data. The Italian data had been added to the 2010 report and all 19 EU countries and Norway showed this dramatic change, except for Spain, which had a small increase of 1.9%