Dear All, I hope you all had a great World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) 2019 celebration last week. I would just like to take the opportunity to share with you one of the highlights from WAAW celebration of FAO RAP last week: the Regional AMR monitoring and surveillance guideline Vol 1 (Monitoring and Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacteria from Health Food Animals intended for consumption) You can now download this, along with the accompanying template, via the links provided in the details below. [cid:image011.png@01D5A375.B31B0050]<http://www.fao.org/publications/card/en/c/CA6897EN> Download here<http://www.fao.org/3/ca6897en/CA6897EN.pdf> Monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from healthy food animals intended for consumption Regional antimicrobial resistance monitoring and surveillance guidelines - Volume 1 Abstract: This Regional Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Monitoring and Surveillance Guidelines Volume 1 provides guidance in the development of AMR surveillance plan for food-borne bacteria, underscoring the key elements for harmonized AMR data generation, data collation and reporting of findings, while taking into consideration the standing context of the region. It aims to provide guidelines on the harmonized scheme for antimicrobial susceptibility testing and laboratory-based monitoring for AMR. There is also an accompanying Regional AMR data management template<http://www.fao.org/3/ca7005en/ca7005en.xlsx>, the details of which is further explained in Chapter 5 of the guideline. FAO. 2019. Monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from healthy food animals intended for consumption. Regional Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring and Surveillance Guidelines – Volume 1. Bangkok. [cid:image012.png@01D5A375.B31B0050] This is the first part of a series of regional guidelines for antimicrobial resistance monitoring and surveillance which also includes: Vol 2: Monitoring and surveillance of AMR in bacterial pathogens from diseased livestock and poultry Vol 3: Monitoring and surveillance of AMR in aquaculture Vol 4: Monitoring and surveillance of AMR in animal environment Vol 5: Monitoring and surveillance of antimicrobial usage at the farm level Furthermore, here are a few additional news and updates: * the Department of Vet Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University has been designated as FAO AMR Reference Centre. Visit this link<http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/news/detail-events/en/c/1251529/> for more details. Congratulations to CU VET AMR team! Cheers, Joy Mary Joy Gordoncillo, DVM, MTVSc, PhD AMR Regional Project Coordinator Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) 39 Phra Atit Road, Phranakorn Bangkok 10200 THAILAND Tel. No.: (+66-2) 697 4150 Fax No.: (+66-2) 697 4445 Mobile Phone No.: (+66-8) 19383927 Website: FAO-RAP<http://www.fao.org/asiapacific/en/> | ECTAD<http://www.fao.org/emergencies/fao-in-action/ectad/en/> | FAO AMR<http://www.fao.org/antimicrobial-resistance> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the VPH-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(VPH-L,SIGNOFF);