The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) recently published a new modeling framework to quantify consumers’ risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) exposure from food products. The framework was developed using chicken and lettuce value chains as case studies.
Pathogens that possess AMR genes were traced from farm-to-fork across four distinct modules in the chicken and lettuce value chains: production, processing, post-processing, and home preparation. The value chains were investigated by means of a literature review and stakeholder elicitation workshop with UK poultry and lettuce industry representatives. The objectives of the project were to: