USDA Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Antimicrobial Resistance Action Plan is a national sectoral plan of the United States of America. This Action Plan describes how USDA, under the One-Health approach, proposes to obtain and disseminate science-based, actionable, quantitative antibiotic drug use information coupled with the development of resistance in food-producing animals and to relate this to livestock management practices.
This action plan outlines USDA’s current activities and proposes a voluntary comprehensive, integrated approach for future surveillance; research and development; and education, extension, and outreach activities that span three objectives: Objective 1: Determine and/or model patterns, purposes, and impacts of antibiotic use in food-producing animals. Objective 2: Monitor antibiotic drug susceptibilities of selected bacterial organisms in food-producing animals, production environments, and meat and poultry. Objective 3: Identify feasible management practices, alternatives to antibiotic use, and other mitigations to reduce AMR associated with food-producing animals and their production environments.
The successful execution of this Action Plan would provide and disseminate science-based information for the veterinary and animal agricultural communities so they can implement effective mitigation strategies to prolong the effectiveness of antibiotics for use in both animals and people. Because the proposed activities are voluntary, USDA must closely cooperate with Federal, industry, commodity, and academic partners to implement this plan.