Third joint inter‐agency report on integrated analysis of consumption of antimicrobial agents and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance in bacteria from humans and food‐producing animals in the EU/EEA

Abstract

The third joint inter-agency report on integrated analysis of antimicrobial consumption (AMC) and the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria from humans and food-producing animals (JIACRA) addressed data obtained by the Agencies' EU-wide surveillance networks for 2016-2018. AMC in both sectors, expressed in mg/kg of estimated biomass, was compared at country and European level. Substantial variations in AMC between countries were observed in human and food animal sectors. In each year over the period 2016-2018, overall AMC was lower in food-producing animals (for example in 2017, 108.3 mg/kg, range 3.1-423.1) than in humans (for example in 2017, 130.0 mg/kg; range 52.8-212.6). This is the first time this situation has been reported since JIACRA analyses were initiated on