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NARMS Surface Water Pilot Overview
Citation:
Garland, J. NARMS Surface Water Pilot Overview. Annual Meeting of the National Institute of Animal Agriculture, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 02 - 05, 2020.
Impact/Purpose:
Providing an overview of the planned interagency work on AMR to a key stakeholder group in the agriculture sector.
Description:
The National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS), established in 1996, is an interagency collaboration of the FDA, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that monitors antibiotic resistance in foodborne bacteria. The NARMS Leadership Team, which consists of members from the FDA, USDA, and CDC is charged with implementing the recommendations of the 2017 FDA Science Board review. Furthermore, environmental monitoring of surface water is being added to the new 2020-2025 National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB). Environmental testing for evidence of AMR is a new domain, but is essential for a successful One Health AMR monitoring system. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed the first phase of a study to examine different surface water sources and is now poised, via a collaboration with NARMS, to explore evidence of emerging AMR throughout the environment on a national scale.