Maximum consumption of antibiotics occurs for:: (A) Human therapeutic use, (B) Human non-therapeutic use, (C) Animal therapeutic use, (D) Animal non-therapeutic use
Answer is D. Ans. D. Animal non-therapeutic useLargest antimicrobial use occurs for animal non-therapeutic purpose (70%), followed by animal therapeutic purpose (15%). Human use accounts only 15% of total antimicrobial consumption, of which only 9% is actually used for human therapeutic purpose.