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“Sabemos que la multidisciplina, el contacto entre los sectores público, privado y la academia, puede ser tremendamente virtuoso para poder compartir experiencias y puntos de vista, y consolidar los pasos a seguir en una materia tan importante como la RAM” [...]

L’outil FAO-ATLASS permet aux pays d'évaluer leur système de surveillance de la résistance aux antimicrobiens dans les secteurs de l’alimentation et de l’agriculture La résistance aux antimicrobiens (RAM) est la capacité des microorganismes à devenir résistants aux antimicrobiens tels que les [...]

It called for the global engagement of all actors to step up efforts to combat antimicrobial resistance (AMR), through a One Health approach. To mark the occasion, FAO Deputy Director-General, Maria Helena Semedo, and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health [...]

This week is World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW). The theme for WAAW 2021 is “Spread awareness, stop resistance.” With this year’s theme, we want to encourage human, animal, and environmental health stakeholders to be AMR Awareness Champions in their families, [...]

Keith Sumption, FAO’s Chief Veterinary officer, did his doctoral research decades ago in southern Africa, at a time when veterinary medicines to maintain livestock health were available only a few days out of each year. Today the problem is not [...]

Markus Lipp, FAO Senior Food Safety Officer, explains here what the new standards mean.

Director-General QU Dongyu warns of threat to food security and livelihoods as well as human and animal health

FAO, OIE and PAHO, the implementing organizations of the regional project “Working Together to Fight Antimicrobial Resistance”, have signed an addendum with the European Union to extend this initiative for an additional year. This expansion, in scope and duration, will [...]

The Codex task force on antimicrobial resistance had to go into extra time on Wednesday 13 October 2021 but has succeeded in recommending that new Guidelines on Integrated Monitoring and Surveillance of Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) will be sent for final adoption [...]

In an extended session on Saturday 9 October 2021, the Codex task force on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) reached agreement on sending the revision of the Code of practice to minimize and contain foodborne AMR to the Codex Alimentarius Commission for final adoption [...]