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A set of indicators will assist European Union (EU) Member States to assess their progress in reducing the use of antimicrobials and combatting antimicrobial resistance.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) partners, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, released the 2015 NARMS Integrated Report.

Since 2011, the German pharmaceutical industry has the obligation of recording, yearly, the amount of commercialised veterinary medicines, specially antibiotics, and of reporting these data to a central register.

A total of 30 European countries — 29 European Union (EU)/European Economic Area (EEA) countries and Switzerland — submitted data on sales or prescriptions (two countries) of antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products (VMPs) to the European Medicines Agency for 2015.

The goals regarding the decrease in the use of antibiotics have not only been attained but exceeded.

Se extenderá el ámbito de su colaboración con el fin de ampliar el enfoque “Una sola salud”, reconociendo la interconexión entre la salud humana, la sanidad animal y el medio ambiente.

The decrease was mainly driven by the use of antimicrobials for pigs, which was 4% less than the year before.

Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Andriukaitis and the Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) José Graziano da Silva, today agreed to ramp up collaboration between the two organisations in tackling the problems of waste in food supply chains and antimicrobial resistance.

The new regulations concern manufacturers, storehouses, traders, handlers, distributors, importers and exporters.