Antimicrobial Resistance and Food Animals

In the time since the publication of the IFT Expert Report [a report titled “Antimicrobial Resistance: Implications for the Food System” was published in 2006], governmental and inter-governmental efforts to address the issue of antimicrobial resistance have seen much progress. In particular, concerns about the public-health implications of microbial resistance to antibiotics used in both human medicine and food-animal agriculture have led to the publication of the World Health …