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. 2020 Oct 7;9(10):678. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics9100678

Table 2.

Penicillin and cephalosporin sales in the EU for food-producing animals, in mg per population correction unit (mg/PCU) in 2017 [94].

Region Country Penicillin Sales for Food-Producing Animals, (mg/PCU) in 2017 1st- and 2nd-gen. Cephalosporin Sales for Food-Producing Animals, (mg/PCU) in 2017 3rd- and 4th-gen. Cephalosporin Sales for Food-Producing Animals, (mg/PCU) in 2017
Northern Europe United
Kingdom
7.5 0.1 0.1
Sweden 7.7 <0.01 <0.01
Finland 8.8 0.03 <0.01
Latvia 8.5 0.2 0.3
Lithuania 13.6 0.1 0.2
Ireland 9.7 0.3 0.1
Estonia 21.7 0.2 0.8
Denmark 11.9 0.02 <0.01
Iceland 3.3 0 <0.01
Norway 1.6 0 <0.01
Western Europe Luxembourg 6.8 0.1 0.6
Netherlands 12.6 0.04 <0.01
France 9.3 0.2 0.02
Germany 34.5 0.1 0.4
Belgium 49.4 0.2 0.1
Austria 8.6 0.05 0.2
Switzerland 11.2 0.1 0.2
Eastern Europe Bulgaria 24.7 0.02 0.1
Czech Republic 17.3 0.3 0.5
Croatia 22.3 0.2 0.2
Hungary 46.7 0.1 0.5
Poland 54.1 0.1 0.2
Romania 18.2 <0.01 0.2
Slovakia 11.4 0.4 0.4
Southern Europe Cyprus 81.1 0.03 0.4
Spain 58.5 0.03 0.2
Greece 18.6 <0.01 0.1
Italy 70.3 0.2 0.4
Malta 12.1 0.1 0.2
Portugal 35.1 0.1 0.6
Slovenia 22.2 0.1 0.2
Total 23.2 0.1 0.3