title: Integrating animal health surveillance and food safety: the issue of antimicrobial resistance.
abstract: Surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in commensal, zoonotic and pathogenic bacteria from humans, animals and food is an essential source of information when formulating measures to improve food safety. International organisations (the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the Codex Alimentarius Commission) have developed a complete set of standards related to resistance surveillance programmes and are calling for the establishment of integrated surveillance programmes. The most important task in establishing an integrated surveillance programme for antimicrobial resistance should be the harmonisation of laboratory testing methodology and antimicrobial-use reporting. Overthe last decade, the integration of surveillance of antimicrobial resistance has been an important step toward addressing the global concern with antimicrobial resistance. However, very few systems are in place and there is still a lot to do before harmonised surveillance systems become the norm.
authors.affiliation: OIE Expert of the Adhoc Group on Antimicrobials, 22 rue Emeriau, 75015 Paris, France. jfacar7@hotmail.com
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Acar
authors.affiliation: French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety (Anses), National Agency for Veterinary Medicinal Products, 8 rue Claude Bourgelat, Parc d'activités de la Grande Marche, Javené, BP 90203, 35302 Fougères, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Moulin
mesh_terms: D000820:Animal Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000382:microbiology*; D000818:Animals; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D024881:Drug Resistance, Bacterial; D014943:Global Health; D011159:Population Surveillance
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents