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In recognition of the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and its increasing threat to human health and the consensus that addressing this problem requires a One Health approach, the 39th session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) agreed it was important for the food safety community to play its part and re-established the ad hoc Codex Task Force on AMR. One of the objectives of the task force is to revise the current Codex Code of Practice to Minimise and Contain Antimicrobial Resistance (CAC/RCP 61-2005) 1 . In order to ensure that this revision is based on the most recent evidence and scientific analysis regarding foodborne AMR, that the scope appropriately reflects the role of the food and agriculture sector in minimizing the risk to public health from the development and spread of foodborne antimicrobial resistance and that a range of risk management options are available for consideration by Codex, Codex issued a request for scientific advice to FAO and WHO in collaboration with OIE2 . Furthermore, Codex requested that the scientific advice should seek to identify any further issues and specific gaps in current scientific knowledge that need to be considered in the revision of existing Codex texts and/or development of new Codex texts.

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/agns/pdf/Call_for_data_experts/DATA_Foodborne_AMR.pdf