The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recently published a joint report on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in zoonotic pathogens from humans, animals, and food in 2021–2022. EFSA and ECDC warn about repeatedly observed resistance to common antibiotics in Salmonella and Campylobacter.
The report analyzes data on bacterial isolates from food-producing animals, collected by EFSA, and isolates from human cases, collected by ECDC, to provide an overview of the state of AMR in Europe. Data, gathered during 2021–2022, were provided by the 27 EU Member States, the UK, Iceland, Norway, the Republic of North Macedonia, and Switzerland. Along with the report, ECDC also released an interactive data visualization tool that shows country-by-country resistance levels in humans, animals, and food during 2021–2022.