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Australian poultry industry marks World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020
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WORLD Antimicrobial Awareness Week ran from November 18-24 and presented a key op- portunity for consumers to consider their role in helping to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
be used at all, they must only be used for thera- peutic purposes – to treat, control or prevent dis- ease, and certainly not for growth promotion – in- deed, this has been indus- try’s position as far back as 2007
the world to develop and implement these.
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The Australian chicken meat industry supports the World Health Organisa- tion in calling Australians to handle antimicrobials with care, in line with the theme of this year’s global awareness week.
• Adoption of a policy that no antibiotics, deter- mined by the World Health Organisation to be criti- cally important in human medicine, are to be used routinely in chicken pro- duction
Over the past year, Ag- riFutures Australia sup- ported a project to inde- pendently verify the exist- ence and maturity of the antimicrobial stewardship programs developed and maintained by the six companies that produce 90 percent of Australian chicken meat.
The results verify that the AMS principles adopted by the Austral- ian chicken meat indus- try have been successful in maintaining the low- resistance status of key bacterial species isolated from Australian meat chickens.
The results showed the Australian chicken meat industry was in an envia- ble position globally, with low and improved levels of AMR and importantly, low levels of resistance to antimicrobials that are priorities for use in human health.
Australian Chicken Meat Federation execu- tive director Dr Vivien Kite said, “The Austral- ian chicken meat industry has been a global leader in helping to prevent antibi- otic resistance through the adoption of responsible use practices and policies since the 1980s.”
• Focusing on preven- tion rather than treatment – using vaccination, farm hygiene and biosecurity to keep Australian chicken flocks healthy – the in- dustry has led the world in terms of developing and implementing vaccines as alternatives to antibiotics
Furthermore, and in col- laboration with the De- partment of Agriculture, Water and the Environ- ment’s animal biosecurity and response reform pro- gram, the industry partici- pated in a national survey of antimicrobial resist-
“Our collaboration, with government, Austral- ian scientists and other experts in this study on AMR and the commit- ment of our members to antimicrobial stewardship programs, will continue to place the Australian chicken meat industry as an international leader in the area of responsible antimicrobial use, while continuing to ensure that the health and welfare of our chickens is not com- promised,” Dr Kite said.
“The industry acknowl- edges that it has a role to play to prevent the devel- opment of antibiotic re- sistance, while at the same time has a responsibility to protect and maintain the health and welfare of the chickens in its care, and we are proud of the work that has been done to date, and that is ongo- ing,” Dr Kite said.
• Development of appro- priate use guidelines for antibiotics in a food-an- imal industry – Austral- ian poultry veterinarians were the first in Australia and among the first in
The report on this pro- ject is publicly available.
This has been achieved due to the industry’s long- standing program of re- sponsible use of antibiotics.
This work includes:
• The creation and adoption of world lead- ing formal antimicrobial stewardship programs by all major chicken meat companies
• The adoption across industry of the principle that, if antibiotics are to
The Australian chicken meat industry has been a global leader in helping to prevent antibiotic resistance.
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