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Fig. 4

From: Reporting the national antimicrobial consumption in Danish pigs: influence of assigned daily dosage values and population measurement

Fig. 4

Annual antimicrobial consumption using four different population measurements and three different sets of ADD-values. Average annual antimicrobial consumption per pig calculated as number of Animal Daily Doses (ADDs)/pig using four different pig population measurements: (1) number of pigs according to Statistics Denmark, (2) number of pigs according to the Central Husbandry Register, (3) pigs slaughtered in Denmark per year and (4) pigs produced in Denmark per year and using three different sets of ADD-values: (a) the old VetStat ADD-values used in the Yellow Card initiative until the 29th of November 2014, (b) the DANMAP ADD-values used in the 2012 and 2013 DANMAP reports and (c) the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration’s ADD-values used in the Yellow Card initiative from the 30th of December 2014 and onwards. 1Pigs produced adjusted for an assumed 3.8 % mortality in exported growers

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Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica

ISSN: 1751-0147