CIPARS-FARM: Farm Antimicrobial Use (AMU):

CIPARS Farm AMU interactive data visualizations below provide an overview of AMU data from the CIPARS Farm Surveillance component by:

• Farm type (including broiler chicken flocks, turkey flocks, and grower-finisher pig herds)
• Antimicrobial class (for example, penicillins, tetracyclines, macrolides)
• Route of administration (including in feed, in water, and by injection)
• Region – National and Provincial (with Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan grouped together as the Prairies)
• Health Canada's categorization of antimicrobial drugs based on importance to human medicine

For additional information about the CIPARS Farm Surveillance component, please visit Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (CIPARS).

The CIPARS-FARM AMU visualizations include Category I, II, and III antimicrobials (as well as some antimicrobials that are uncategorized but considered medically important). Category IV antimicrobials and chemical coccidiostats are currently excluded from the visualizations.

Antimicrobial use is measured in four ways:

1. The percentage of farms (herds or flocks) using antimicrobials (count-based measure)
2. Milligrams per Canadian PCU (mg/PCU_CA, weight-based measure)
3. Milligrams per kilogram animal biomass (mg/kg biomass, weight-based measure)
4. Number of defined daily doses for animals per 1,000 animal-days (nDDDvet_CA/1,000 animal-days, dose-based measure)

The population correction unit (PCU) is a measure of animal biomass that accounts for the number of animals and their average weight at treatment. The kilogram animal biomass (kg biomass), also a measure of animal biomass, uses the average live weight of at the time of slaughter (or adult weight for animals not raised for slaughter). Defined daily doses per 1,000 animal-days is a measure of the number of daily doses of antimicrobials given, and accounts for the dose of the antimicrobial used, the number of animals, and the number of days in the production cycle.

These interactive visualizations are updated regularly, and therefore may differ from published CIPARS reports.

Figure 1. CIPARS-FARM: The number of farms sampled, the number of animals sampled (population at risk), and the days at risk (length of the production cycle), in broiler chicken flocks turkey flocks grower-finisher pig herds , 2013-2022, Canada.

Hover over the line graph to see the number of farms sampled, the number of animals sampled (population at risk), and the days at risk (length of the production cycle).

Table 1. The number of farms sampled, the number of animals sampled (population at risk), and the days at risk (length of the production cycle), in , .

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Year	Number of farms	Population at risk	Days at risk

Figure 2. CIPARS-FARM: The percentage of broiler chicken flocks turkey flocks grower-finisher pig herds reporting use of medically important antimicrobials, 2017 – 2022, Canada.

Hover over the line graph to see the percentage of farms using medically important antimicrobials.

Table 2. CIPARS-FARM: The percentage of reporting use of medically important antimicrobial, administered by , .

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Antimicrobial

Figure 3. CIPARS-FARM: Annual quantity in mg per Canadian PCU mg per kg biomass nDDDvetCA/1,000 animal-days of medically important antimicrobials reported by broiler chicken flocks turkey flocks grower-finisher pig herds by route of administration, 2017-2022, Canada.

Hover over the line graph to see the annual quantity of medically important antimicrobials reported by farms, by route of administration.

Table 3. CIPARS-FARM: Annual quantity in of medically important antimicrobials reported by , administered by , 2017-2022, Canada.

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Year

Figure 4. CIPARS-FARM: The quantity in mg per Canadian PCU mg per kg biomass nDDDvetCA/1,000 animal-days of medically important antimicrobials reported by broiler chicken flocks turkey flocks grower-finisher pig herds by route of administration and antimicrobial class, 2017-2022, Canada.

Hover over the bar graph to see the annual quantity of medically important antimicrobials reported by route of administration and antimicrobial class.

Table 4. CIPARS-FARM: The quantity in of medically important antimicrobials reported by administered by , 2017-2022, Canada.

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Figure 5. CIPARS-FARM: The quantity in mg per Canadian PCU mg per kg biomass nDDDvetCA/1,000 animal-days of medically important antimicrobials reported by broiler chicken flocks turkey flocks grower-finisher pig herds by route of administration and category of importance to human medicine, 2017-2022, Canada.

Hover over the bar graph to see the annual quantity of medically important antimicrobials reported by route of administration and category of importance.

Table 5. CIPARS-FARM: The quantity in of medically important antimicrobials reported by administered by , 2017-2022, Canada

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