How can the FSA improve the evidence base concerning Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and food?  

Background

The food system does not stand in isolation from global challenges such as climate change, plastic pollution and antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We are also facing major health challenges, including an obesity crisis, due to poor diet and nutrition.

We need to understand how these impact on the food system, either directly or as the result of mitigations/solutions being introduced and the role our science can play to help address these major threats.  As an evidence provider, we will support cross-government initiatives, such as the UK AMR National Action Plan and Net Zero Strategy. 

Next steps

Please contact the FSA Science Strategy, Research and Capability Unit at ari@food.gov.uk

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

FSA Areas of research interest

Related UKRI funded projects

  • FightAMR: Novel global One Health surveillance approach to fight AMR using Artificial Intelligence and big data mining

    Understanding the risk and direction of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread through food-borne routes, and developing of interventions to limit the spread of AMR within and between humans, animals, environment and food...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    This project specifically focuses on understanding and monitoring AMR spread through food-borne routes using AI and big data mining, aligning with the question's objective.

  • Citizen Science and Antimicrobial Resistance

    Our team brings together citizen science expertise (PI West) with expertise in antimicrobial resistance (CoIs Swift, Ray) and food systems (CoI Whatford), with national and local food growing organisations (Garden Organi...

    Funded by: BBSRC

    Lead research organisation: University of York

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on improving the evidence base concerning Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in the food system through a citizen science approach.

  • Novel global One Health surveillance approach to fight AMR using Artificial Intelligence and big data mining

    Understanding of the risk and direction of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) spread through food-borne routes, and development of interventions to limit the spread of AMR within and between humans, animals, environment and ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FLOX LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    While this project also aims to develop a monitoring system for AMR spread through food-borne routes using AI, it lacks the detailed approach of the first project.

  • DESIGN OH AMR - DESIGNING THE EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP ON ONE HEALTH AMR

    At the highest political levels antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is recognised as major threat to the health of citizens and societies, food security and development as it threatens the effective prevention and treatment o...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER NETWORK LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is relevant as it addresses AMR, but it does not specifically focus on the food system or the FSA's role in improving the evidence base.

  • Exploring the chopping board microbiome

    Many foodborne infections begin in the home, often through poor hygiene where chopping boards provide an opportunity for raw foods to cross-contaminate. By undertaking microbiological analysis of chopping boards, includi...

    Funded by: BBSRC

    Lead research organisation: Aston University

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the question partially by investigating the antimicrobial resistance profiles of organisms found on chopping boards, but does not specifically focus on improving the evidence base concerning AMR and food.

  • BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme: Microbes and Food Safety Partner Grant

    The Microbes and Food Safety (MFS) ISP will provide an understanding of how microbial threats, such as pathogens and spoilage-causing bacteria, evolve and interact to affect food safety and develop strategies to reduce t...

    Funded by: BBSRC

    Lead research organisation: Oxford Brookes University

  • BBSRC Institute Strategic Programme: Microbes and Food Safety Partner Grant

    The Microbes and Food Safety (MFS) ISP will provide an understanding of how microbial threats, such as pathogens and spoilage-causing bacteria, evolve and interact to affect food safety and develop strategies to reduce t...

    Funded by: BBSRC

    Lead research organisation: Royal Veterinary College

  • Changing Food Systems in Kenya and Malawi and the Challenge of Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

    This research partnership involves a two-year programme of work focused on the ways in which rapidly changing cultures of poultry meat consumption and agricultural systems in particular Low and Middle Income Countries (L...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: Newcastle University

    Why might this be relevant?

    This project specifically focuses on the relationship between changing food systems and antibiotic use/misuse in farming, addressing the issue of AMR in the context of Low and Middle Income Countries.

  • Selecting Efficient Farm-level Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions from a One Health perspective

    It is often suggested that interventions to prevent the development and transmission of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) should be targeted at the livestock sector. The potential costs to agriculture are often argued as &q...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

  • The environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance: the transition from policy formation to implementation

    Prof Dame Sally Davies, the previous Chief medical officer and current UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) said that if antimicrobial drugs lose their effectiveness it would spell "the end of modern m...

    Funded by: NERC

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

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