Exploring the Potential for A Public-Private Partnership to Support the Tracking and Monitoring of Antimicrobial Use in Food-Producing Animals

As part of ongoing activity to better understand this relationship, the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine engaged the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA to facilitate conversations with relevant stakeholders to assess the feasibility of creating a public-private partnership to develop an antimicrobial drug use data repository to foster antimicrobial stewardship in food-producing animals. This report, Exploring the Potential for A Public-Private Partnership to Support the Tracking and Monitoring of Antimicrobial Use in Food-Producing Animals, summarizes the key themes that emerged from these conversations and offers next steps.