Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a pressing food safety issue that poses a threat to global health. At the Global Conference on Foodborne AMR, which took place September 27–28, 2022 in Seoul, Korea, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) highlighted the need for a “One Health” approach to addressing AMR in food, and introduced a new project to support certain nations in adopting Codex Alimentarius standards on foodborne AMR.
At the conference, FAO food safety officers also presented tools provided by the organization that countries can use to monitor the implementation of AMR Codex standards, such as the International FAO AMR Monitoring System and IT platform (InFARM). The new InFARM was created as part of an effort to encourage nations to regularly generate and analyze reliable and comparable data on AMR in food and agriculture, and data on antimicrobial use in crops and plants.