In 2016, these findings led China to ban colistin as growth promoter. Chinese pig farming uses sulfamethazine, bacitracin, chlortetracycline, tetracycline, florfenicol, sulfonamide, doxycycline, oxytetracycline, fluoroquinolone, macrolide, and trimethoprim. It stopped using colistin as of 26 July 2016.