How much does big pharma make from animal antibiotics?

Animal antibiotics are far cheaper than the human equivalent but fears are growing over their real cost How much money do pharmaceutical companies earn from animal antibiotics? Pharmaceutical companies are earning about $5bn (?3.77bn) a year from producing antibiotics for farm animals, according to calculations by Animal Pharm, the agricultural business analysts. The European animal antibiotics market is worth about $1.25bn a year, and the US animal antibiotics industry about $2bn a year. Continue reading...