Carina Storrs

TL;DR: Research on the nonfoodborne spread of AMR is reviewed, with a focus on domesticated animals and the environment and possible exposures to humans, including underpinning the genetics important to human and animal health.

TL;DR: The rationale behind multiple and competing “critically important antimicrobial lists and their contexts as created by international, regional, and national organizations are discussed; discrepancies among these lists are identified; and issues surrounding risk management recommendations that have been made by regulatory organizations on the use of antibiotics in food animal production are described.

TL;DR: These established and emerging strategies are discussed, which are anticipated to reduce the reliance on antibiotics in food animal production and should reduce the prevalence and transmission to humans of antimicrobial resistant bacteria from these systems.

TL;DR: A new labeled animal production certification program is under development to provide choice for consumers, while reducing consumer confusion, which mandates antibiotic stewardship practices as discussed by the authors, and experiences from communication efforts about food safety related issues demonstrate exactly how challenging this is to communicate clearly.