FAO: AMR for Animals surveillance program page
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Surveillance and monitoring is an important focus area of FAO’s work to tackle AMR in food and agriculture sectors. FAO is supporting countries in building and consolidating AMR surveillance and laboratory capacities to generate, collect and analyze high-quality epidemiological data within national AMR surveillance systems.The development of an FAO data platform hosting AMR data from animals and foodis a key activity of FAO Action Plan on AMR 2021-2025, approved by 166th session of FAO Council in support of the Global Action Plan on AMR.
FAO is currently seeking expression of interest from countries to participate in the development of a prototype of the International FAO Antimicrobial resistance Monitoring (InFARM) data platform during 2022. Global roll out of InFARM and expansion to additional surveillance programs is planned after successful completion of this pilot phase.
The initial scope of InFARM will be to host AMR data in priority bacteria of interest for public health, animal health and indicator bacteria from animals and food, according to international standards and recommendations from Codex Alimentarius guidelines for integrated monitoring and surveillance of foodborne AMR and OIE animal health codes. The platform will evolve and progressively expand to host data on additional surveillance priorities under FAO’s remit, such as data on the use of antimicrobial pesticides in plants.
The main objectives of the InFARM data platform are:
- To support countries in collecting, analysing and using their AMR data from animals and food.
- To support countries willing to publicly share AMR data from food and agriculture sectors for global surveillance, as a public good for international advocacy and action against AMR. This includes the support for sharing data into the global Tripartite Integrated System for Surveillance of AMR/AMU (TISSA).