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The annual IFRM, organized by the IFIF and FAO, provides a unique opportunity for feed regulators and feed industry  professionals from across the world to come together, exchange their thoughts and  information and to explore concrete ways to address jointly [...]

Prof Jaap Wagenaar, who is an expert microbiologist from the Utrecht University Veterinary Faculty, visited Myanmar as International Consultant on AMR with support from the FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) and FAO Myanmar.

The 10th International Feed Regulators Meeting organized by IFIF in cooperation with FAO brought together a record number of feed industry representatives and government officials from 35 countries to discuss key issues including Feed Safety Risk Management Strategies and the [...]

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in cooperation with other partners discussed major challenges and untapped opportunities in addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) today. The stakeholders’ meeting, which focused on AMR in Asia’s animal production industry, was one of the Side [...]

A joint meeting of microbiologists and data management experts from human health and animal health sectors was co–organized by FAO and the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR) at National Institute of Veterinary Epidemiology and Disease Informatics (NIVEDI), Bengaluru, India from 18-19 January, 2017.

A group of aquatic microbiology and aquatic animal health experts from Croatia, India, Sri Lanka, the Netherlands, and the United States of America gathered for a 3-day book write-shop organized by the FAO Aquaculture Branch in Frascati, Italy from 12-14 [...]

Today, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, in collaboration with FAO and WHO are joining their high level commitment to launch the Antibiotic Awareness Week.

The second National Antibiotics Awareness Week in Viet Nam highlights the continued high level commitment of the government against antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Running under the theme: Together and Stronger against AMR, the campaign brings together various sectors: health, agriculture, industry [...]

The 2016 Codex Alimentarius Commission acknowledged that AMR is a serious public health threat requiring urgent attention by Codex, and that a coordinated approach was needed at the international and national level to combat AMR

Laos and other countries around the world have pledged to take immediate action to combat the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Globally and in the region, the pledge to combat AMR was made with the support and collaboration of FAO, OIE [...]