Tradeoffs between resistance to antimicrobials in public health and their use in agriculture: Moving towards sustainability assessment

Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to select resistant bacteria potentially transferred to humans directly or indirectly via the food chain, representing a public health hazard. Yet, a major difference triggering AMU in food animal production is that in addition to therapeutic...

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Main Authors: Gröhn, Y.T (Author), Jørgensen, P.S (Author), Kenkel, D. (Author), Lhermie, G. (Author), Lin Lawell, C.-Y.C (Author), Tauer, L.W (Author), Wernli, D. (Author)
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier B.V. 2019
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520 3 |a Antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal agriculture contributes to select resistant bacteria potentially transferred to humans directly or indirectly via the food chain, representing a public health hazard. Yet, a major difference triggering AMU in food animal production is that in addition to therapeutic cure, farmers use antimicrobials to keep their herds healthy and highly productive, while ensuring animal welfare and food safety objectives. As a society, we consequently face difficult tradeoffs, between massive restrictions of AMU, and maintenance of current and potentially non-sustainable consumption levels. Here, we present the different components to be addressed for assessing the sustainability of AMU in animal agriculture. At first, we describe the interests and limits of existing models identified by reviewing the literature, which could potentially be used to assess AMU sustainability, while allowing the reader to capture in a simple and visual manner the complexity of the issue. We address in the following sections the boundaries of the social-ecological system and the indicators that are required for assessment of AMU sustainability. We introduce analytic methods that could be used for assessing the sustainability of antimicrobial use. © 2019 The Authors 
650 0 4 |a Agriculture 
650 0 4 |a animal welfare 
650 0 4 |a Animalia 
650 0 4 |a antimicrobial activity 
650 0 4 |a Antimicrobial resistance 
650 0 4 |a Antimicrobial use 
650 0 4 |a bioindicator 
650 0 4 |a ecological economics 
650 0 4 |a food safety 
650 0 4 |a Indicators 
650 0 4 |a literature review 
650 0 4 |a livestock farming 
650 0 4 |a public health 
650 0 4 |a Social-ecological system 
650 0 4 |a sustainability 
650 0 4 |a Sustainability assessment 
650 0 4 |a trade-environment relations 
650 0 4 |a trade-off 
700 1 |a Gröhn, Y.T.  |e author 
700 1 |a Jørgensen, P.S.  |e author 
700 1 |a Kenkel, D.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lhermie, G.  |e author 
700 1 |a Lin Lawell, C.-Y.C.  |e author 
700 1 |a Tauer, L.W.  |e author 
700 1 |a Wernli, D.  |e author 
773 |t Ecological Economics