Objectives

Enhance AMU stewardship and strengthen efforts to minimize AMR in Asia’s animal production sectors.

The focus will be on the following priority areas identified at PMAC 2016 Side Meeting:

1. Consider mechanisms to establish baseline AMU assessments and usage monitoring frameworks, working toward establishing usage targets;
2. Promoting evidence-based policy/legislative/regulatory guidance and enforcement and compliance systems applicable within the Asia context; and
3. Utilize a risk assessment approach to measure the impact of anti-microbial growth promotion (AGP) phase outs (by AM class) on both resistance and comprehensive consideration of economic costs and benefits, tied to reduced-usage practices (e.g. enhanced nutrition, vaccination coverage, husbandry, etc...) and communicating these to key target audiences.

Concept note and agenda