AMR in animals and food general report page

Since early 2022, FAO has started to develop a prototype for the International FAO Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring (InFARM) IT platform. FAO will be working with an initial set of countries to participate in developing and testing the InFARM IT platform prototype during 2022.

Data privacy will be guaranteed by providing users to separate private and public interfaces with different levels of confidentiality for data sharing. Members enrolled in InFARM may decide to share data ranging from complete privacy only accessible to nominated country users in the private interface and make data publicly available for the international community.

As soon as the InFARMIT platform is ready for global roll out, data in its public interface will be shared into TISSA.

In this page you will be able to see AMR data in priority bacteria of interest for public health in animals and food commoditiesprovided by countries on an annual basis. The information displayed will respect the levels of confidentiality agreed by countries,providing aggregated indicators at regional and subregional levels when countriesdecide to protect their identity.

You can access different reports with information stratified per region, subregion, and country (the latter only for countries that agree in showing their identity):

• The number of countries reporting AMR surveillance information to FAO
• The number of surveillance sites (farms, slaughterhouses, food retailers, laboratories)where samples for antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) are collected
• The number of isolates with AST results for bacteria of interest for public health per animal species (including terrestrial and aquatic animals), specimen (e.g.feces, meat), and origin (e.g. farm, slaughterhouse, food store) of the samples
• Aggregated measures for AMR prevalence (median and interquartile range) across countries per regions and subregions for specific combinations of bacteria and antibiotic used for AST

Reports for AMR in animals and food

Report 1: Number of countries reporting AMR surveillance information to FAO

This report presents the number of countries reporting AMR data in animals and food in bacteria of public health interest and/or information in the implementation of surveillance in food and agriculture at national level.

Data are presented per year, by region and subregions, and by country in those countries that agree in sharing their identity in the InFARM public interface. It is important to note that countries in initial stages might participate in InFARM by just sharing information on the implementation of surveillance by filling in a questionnaire in core surveillance components.

You can select one year, and one or all regions, subregions or countries. The report will provide atableshowingthe number of countries that share with FAO only AMR data (i.e.isolates with AST results) (1st column), only information on their surveillance systems (2nd column) or both pieces of information (3rd column).

Report 2: Number of surveillance sites

This report presents the number of surveillance sites,corresponding to the number of countries in report 1, where samples for bacterial isolation and AST are originated from.

Data are presented per year, by region and subregions, and by country in those countries that agree in sharing their identity in the InFARM public interface.

You can select one year, and one or all regions, subregions or countries. The report will provide atableshowingthe number of farms (column 1), number of slaughterhouses (column 2), number of food retailers (column 3) and number of laboratories (column 4) sharing bacterialisolates with AST results of relevance for public health in the InFARM public interface.

Report 3: Number of bacterial isolates with AST results

This report presents the number of bacterial isolateswith AST results, corresponding to the number of countries and surveillance sites in reports 1 and 2.

Data are presented per year, by region and subregions, and by country in those countries that agree in sharing their identity in the InFARM public interface.

You can select one year, and one or all regions, subregions or countries. The report will provide atableshowingthe number of isolates with AST results (to any antibiotic) per animal species (including terrestrial and aquatic animals), specimens (e.g. feces, meat), origin (e.g. farm, slaughterhouse, food store), and bacterial species of interest for public health.

Report 4: AMR prevalence

Thisreport presents aggregated measures for AMR prevalence across countries.

Data are presented per year, by region and subregions for specific combinations of bacteria and antibioticsused for AST.

You can select one year, one or all regions and subregions, one specimen, one origin, one animal species, one bacterial species and one or all antibiotics. The report will provide boxplot(s) with the median and interquartile range of AMR prevalence (I.e. percentage of resistant isolates among total of isolates tested for specific bacteria and antibiotic combinations)across countries for the selection made.