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APUA Ecology Program
Ecology Progam Description
Mission The mission of the Ecology Program is to bring an ecological perspective to the policy debate on antibiotic resistance in order to promote human, animal, and environmental health.
Objectives
- Document the cumulative health effects of antibiotic use in human and veterinary medicine, agriculture, aquaculture, household products, etc.
- Inform stakeholders and encourage communication and collaboration in formulating effective public policy.
- Provide unbiased and comprehensive information resources to the public in order to raise awareness of antibiotic resistance and the threat it poses to human and environmental health.
Recent Projects
- Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and their Impact on
Resistance (FAAIR).The
purpose of FAAIR is to bring scientific evidence to the policy
debate surrounding the use of antibiotics in food animal production.
The FAAIR project published a comprehensive report in the journal
Clinical Infectious Diseases in Spring 2002.
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A Report of the Facts about Antibiotics in Animals and the Impact on Resistance (FAAIR) Project
(UChicago Journals, Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases,
Vol. 41, Number 4, 15 August 2005, p. i-e44, etc.)
FULL REPORT-
The Need to Improve Antimicrobial Use in Agriculture Ecological
and Human Health Consequences
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/cid/34/s3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- Global Antimicrobial Resistance Alerts
and Implications
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/430780
INTRODUCTION
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/432443
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- Select Findings, Conclusions, and Policy
Recommendations
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/430781
- FAAIR II. This project focuses on obtaining improved
antibiotic usage estimates in US food animal production to guide
regulatory decision-making. FAAIR II involves collaboration
with an expert panel composed of representatives from academia,
food producer organizations, public interest groups, veterinary
professional associations, public health agencies, and the pharmaceutical
industry. Both FAAIR and FAAIR II were supported by The Joyce
Foundation.
- Swine Health Demonstration Project. APUA is providing
support to researchers at Tufts University School of Veterinary
Medicine on a CDC-funded swine health demonstration project.
The project examines microbiological characteristics and health
in swine herds raised without antibiotics. APUA will also develop
educational and outreach materials to inform stakeholders and
the public of the project’s results and significance.
- USDA-ARS Regional Comparison of Antimicrobial Resistance
in the Environment. Ecology Program Staff are collaborating
with USDA-ARS to provide water samples and fecal samples from
veterinary clinics in the Boston metropolitan area for analysis
of bacterial resistance profiles.
- Environmental Impact of Antibiotics (EIA).
EIA launched a national pubic awareness campaign including the
initial development of the Ecology Web site and the publication
of articles about the ecology of antibiotic resistance in the
scientific literature and lay press. This project was supported
by The Nathan Cummings Foundation.
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