Antimicrobial resistance (AMR): significance to food quality and safety

AMR has now emerged as a global threat to human and veterinary public health. Prudent employment of the existing arsenal of available and licenced antibiotics needs to be emphasized and schemes adopted including antimicrobial stewardship codes of conduct, in order to extend the usefulness and efficacy of such antibiotic agents for generations. New economic incentives need to be developed to encourage investment into novel antibiotics by the pharmaceutical industry, so that society will have effective tools to combat infectious diseases for generations to come.