Weaning U.S. food-animals off antimicrobials: What can we learn from state- and city-level policies?

ABSTRACT: Antimicrobials are widely used worldwide in food animal production for controlling and preventing disease and for improving feed conversion efficiency and growth promotion. Inappropriate use of antimicrobials in animal agriculture has the potential to promote antimicrobial resistance, which represents a threat to human, animal, and environmental health. State and municipal policies in the United States have recently been implemented to improve antimicrobial use and reporting in this sector. This study analyzed the implementation of two state-level policies (California (CA) and Maryland (MD)) and a city-level policy in San Francisco (SF), California that aimed to reduce the use of antimicrobials in food-animals and increase transparency of antimicrobial use. A qualitative analysis was based

SUBMITTER: Bliss SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10016712 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature