A recent report has demonstrated that there is little oversight of antibiotics in meat and poultry sold at U.S. grocery stores, raising food safety concerns regarding antimicrobial resistance.

At the Global Conference on Foodborne Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) stressed the need for a “One Health” approach to addressing AMR in food, introduced the AMR Codex Texts project, and highlighted FAO and Codex Alimentarius resources for mitigating foodborne AMR. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System Integrated Summary for 2019, which is a review of data gathered on the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) of several pathogens.

The latest report from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has found that the use of antibiotics in food-producing animals has decreased.