As with other countries in Europe, use of antibiotics for growth promotion was banned in 2006.[1] Less than one third of all antibiotics sold in the UK are now estimated to be used to treat or prevent disease in farmed animals, following a revision to the 2017 sales data published by the UK Government's Veterinary Medicines Directorate.[128][129] Furthermore, 2018 sales data[130] estimated use at 29.5 mg antibiotics per kg of animal at time of treatment during that year.