Focus Area 3.4 Food safety across sustainable food systems
Sub-focus Area 3.4.2 Ensuring food safety across food production systems
Recommendation Number: 3.4.2.b
Governments, in collaboration with intergovernmental organizations, should continue to develop and implement science and risk-based national plans taking into account the “Antimicrobial resistance: A manual for developing national action plans” to combat antimicrobial resistance in livestock, aquaculture, and in plants, including in feed production, recognizing and using international standards, guidelines and recommendations, adopted by the international standard setting bodies including those recognized by the [World Trade Organization Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures] WTO SPS agreement to promote and support prudent and appropriate use of antimicrobials, and recalling relevant [Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) FAO Conference resolutions(*1), and recognizing and using Codex Alimentarius Commission standards, guidelines and recommendations, and taking note of the work of [United Nations] UN Interagency Coordinating Group on Antimicrobial Resistance (IACG), where appropriate. A collaborative One Health approach, taking into account the Global Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance, is necessary to reduce AMR, including awareness raising as well as developing the capacity of monitoring [Antimicrobial Resistance] AMR and AMU (Antimicrobial Use) in food and agriculture, as appropriate(*2).
The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.