VETSTAT - the Danish system for surveillance of the veterinary use of drugs for production animals

H. Stege, Flemming Bager, Erik Jacobsen, A. Thougaard

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    Abstract

    The Danish Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries funds a monitoring system based on drug usage information collected at the herd level: VETSTAT. VETSTAT is constructed as a relational database and data originates from three sources: pharmacies, veterinarians and feed mills. All administration of drugs for use in animal production is reported on a monthly basis. Pharmacies provided 95% of the total weight antimicrobial compounds used in Denmark in 2001. More than 80% of the antimicrobial compounds reported by pharmacies were sold on prescription to end-users (owners) and included information on animal species, age-group and diagnostic grouping; >90% of the total amount of antimicrobials sold on prescription was used for pigs. In 2001, sales of 96,500 kg of antimicrobials were reported.
    Original languageEnglish
    JournalPreventive Veterinary Medicine
    Volume57
    Issue number3
    Pages (from-to)105-115
    ISSN0167-5877
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

    Keywords

    • antimicrobial consumption
    • drugs
    • production animals
    • Denmark
    • surveillance system

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