The document outlines the role of the International Federation for Animal Health (IFAH) in promoting responsible use of antibiotics in animals, focusing on improving animal health and food safety while preventing antimicrobial resistance. IFAH advocates for science-based regulatory environments and collaborates with international organizations to ensure the availability of veterinary medicines and the implementation of responsible use guidelines. It emphasizes the importance of veterinarian oversight and harmonized monitoring practices to manage and reduce the risks associated with antibiotic use in agriculture.

1. Perspectives on Antibiotics in Animals
International Federation for Animal Health (IFAH)
Dr. Thomas R. Shryock
representing IFAH on behalf of the Asian Animal Health Association
Senior Research Advisor Elanco Animal Health Greenfield Indiana USA
Advisor, Health, Greenfield, Indiana,

2. What is IFAH?
● Global body representing companies engaged in the research, development,
manufacture and commercialisation of animal health products in both developed
and developing countries across the five continents.
● IFAH’s members include animal health companies and national/regional animal
health associations. In turn, these associations represent a broad range of
concerns, f
from small, l
ll local b i
l businesses t i t
to international enterprises. T
ti l t i Together,
th
these companies supply approximately 80% of all animal health products used
worldwide.
● IFAH is an international non-profit organisation, registered under Belgian law and
non profit organisation law,
based in Brussels.
● More information: www.ifahsec.org
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3. IFAH’s Mission
● To foster a greater understanding of animal health, and to promote a predictable,
science-based regulatory environment that facilitates the supply of innovative,
quality products into a competitive market place. These products contribute to the
supply of safe, healthy food, and to high standards of health and welfare for
animals and people.
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4. Working toward these goals, IFAH:
● Acts as the voice of the industry in dialogue with international bodies such as the OIE, FAO,
WHO, Codex and WTO, with governments, animal health stakeholders, food industry
partners, and with consumers;
● Encourages and assists the development of predictable, science-based regulatory
procedures and standards;
● Supports international harmonisation of testing requirements for animal health products,
facilitating the
f ilit ti th availability and d li
il bilit d delivery of new and i
f d innovative t l f use b th veterinary
ti tools for by the t i
profession and animal owners worldwide;
● Provides information on the benefits of animal health products for animal health and welfare,
food safety a d pub c health;
ood sa ety and public ea t ;
● Promotes the value of research-based medicines, developed to the highest standards and
authorised in accordance with the regulatory criteria of quality, safety and efficacy;
● Ensures the availability of all classes of veterinary medicines, to the benefit of animal health
and welfare, and promote their responsible use;
● Provides expertise on emerging diseases, fulfilling its role as part of the solution to
controlling these diseases in animals.
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5. Food Economics and Consumer Choice
An overview of the challenge ahead
1 Green, R. et al. January 2005. “Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature.” Science 307.5709: 550-555; and Tilman, D. et al. August 2002. “Agricultural sustainability and intensive
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2 “World Agriculture: toward 2015/2030.” 2002. United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome. Accessed 12/8/08. <ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/004/y3557e/y3557e.pdf>.
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6. The Issue…
●Veterinary vs. Medical need for antimicrobials
●Selective pressure of antibiotic use in animals
●Zoonotic bacteria may be exposed to drug during
y p g g
antimicrobial use for food animal infections and
transfer to humans via contaminated food
- Animal
A i l antibiotic use i not the source of all h
ibi i is h f ll human
antibiotic resistance!

7. EPIDEMIOLOGY
OF
ANTIMICROBIAL
RESISTANCE
AQUACULTURE
Sea / Swimming
Lakes
Drinking
Water
Drinking Rivers and
water Streams
Industrial &
Household
Antibacterial
SOIL
Chemicals
Farm Effluents and
Manure Spreading Sewage
WILDLIFE
Dead
Rendering Offal
stock Vegetation,
Vegetation
Seed Crops, Fruit
SWINE
HUMAN
SHEEP CATTLE
Commercial COMMUNITY
Animal Handling
FOOD Abattoirs / Meat HOSPITALIZED - URBAN
Feeds
F d Preparation
P ti
VEAL ANIMALS Processing -RURAL
Consumption
CALVES POULTRY Plants
OTHER EXTENDED
FARMED CARE
LIVESTOCK
FACILITIES
COMPANION Direct
ANIMALS Contact
after Linton AH (1977), modified by Irwin RJ

8. Global "authority" Reports/Recommendations
since 1997
● WHO (Berlin, FQ, Global Principles of Use, Use Monitoring, Aquaculture,
AGISAR)
● OIE (Terrestrial Code, Scientific Technical Review, 2012)
● Codex -various
● Europe (CVMP, EFSA, National reports, etc.)
● U.S. (NRC, CDC, FDA, GAO, IOM, Public Health Action Plan, etc.)
● Australia (JETACAR)
● Canada (Adv. Com. Report, CCAR)
● Other reports from institutes, foundations, professional organizations, etc.

9. Summary of
Actions and Recommendations
International and National Level
● Responsible Use Guideines
- Appropriate veterinary antibiotic use practices described; education disease
education,
prevention, stakeholder responsibilities
● Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring
● Antimicrobial Sales Monitoring
● Regulatory Controls
- Risk assessment-based regulatory decisions on microbial food safety guide
decisions on product use:
p
- Approval with appropriate label indications and use, prescription
● Research
- New products, new methods

10. Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring
● Objective - detect trends over time in AMR of food borne bacteria or animal
pathogens
● Harmonized testing methods and data reporting (ECV vs. BPT) are needed (CLSI
X08-R; AGISAR, OIE Terrestrial Code 6.7)
● Data must relate to the context of actual use on-farm for clinical practice changes;
national, cumulative data provides only a high-level view
Figure 1. Distribution of MICs and Categorization by Clinical Breakpoints Contrasted to ECVs. CLSI X08-R. 2011.
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11. Antimicrobial Sales / Use Monitoring
● Objective is to obtain data on antimicrobial use for:
- Benchmarking (high versus "average" use)
- Set d
S t and monitor reduction t
it d ti targets t
- Investigate potential links between use and prevalence of resistance for risk assessment
purposes
- Compare use in animals with that in humans
● Sales data does not inform about actual field use practices
● Use data must come from on-farm records or surveys
● Harmonized data collection methods are desirable to make comparisons country
country-
to-country or for specific assessments
- OIE Terrestrial Code Chapter 6.8
- ESVAC approach for Europe
- US FDA approach h
● Data should ideally be collected by species
● Data must relate to the context of actual use on-farm for clinical practice changes;
national, cumulative data provides only a high-level view
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12. Implementation of Risk Management
Interventions without Risk Assessment
● Actions taken without full consideration of Consequences may lead to undesired
and unintended negative effects with little / no positive benefits
- Mandated volume reduction programmes
- Removal of certain product label indications
- Creation of overly restrictive product labels
- Not connecting food safety interventions to exposure
g y p
- Categorization of antibiotics for importance without risk assessment basis
● Observed unintended consequences
- Shift to importing meat products in some EU countries as farms go out of business
- Increased animal disease leading to increased therapeutic use
- No net decrease in AMR key human pathogens (VRE, FQ resistant salmonella, etc)
- Non-attributable linkage of human pathogen AMR to animal antimicrobial use (ESBLs,
ESKAPE pathogens, MRSA)
- Precautionary approach to new antimicrobial registration process may i hibi i
P i h i i bi l i i inhibit innovation
i
- Antibiotic categorization acceptance leads to unnecessary formularies, avoidance of use
by veterinarians and confounding in risk assessments
- Alternatives that may not be characterized for quality, safety or effectiveness
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13. Responsible Use Guidelines
Directed to Stakeholders or as Clinical Best Practices
● Codex CAC/RCP 61-2005
● OIE Terrestrial Code Chapter 6 9
6.9
● WHO Responsible Use Principles 2000
● WVA Global Basic Principles
● EPRUMA Best Practice Framework
● AVMA Judicious Therapeutic Use Guidelines
● Many others
others…
● Note: Therapeutic Use includes Prevention, Control and Treatment

14. Definitions
● Therapeutic - Group or Individual Treatment
- Treatment – administration to clinically ill animals
- Control
C t l – administration t a group of animals, some of which are clinically ill some which
d i i t ti to f i l f hi h li i ll ill, hi h
are prodromal (incubating) and some of which are not exposed.
- Prevention – administration to animals that are at high risk of becoming ill due to
pathogen exposure
● Non-therapeutic
- Administration to healthy animals for the intention of increased performance, e.g. feed
efficiency, rate of weight gain, etc.
- Differentiation may be made by some regulatory agencies with regard to the type of antimicrobial
agent administered, for example:
• Non-human antimicrobial agent use (example: ionophores)
• Medically important antimicrobial use (example: tetracyclines, etc.)

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16. Ensuring Animal Health
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17. Veterinarian Oversight includes…
● Establish veterinarian-client-patient-relationship
● Establish herd/flock health care program to minimize disease prevalence
● Obtain accurate disease diagnosis and/or utilize clinical judgment
● Determine need for treatment and appropriate product
● Administer product per label directions or extra-label use algorithm when
necessary
● Maintain adequate records of diagnostics, treatment and clinical outcome to
guide subsequent use

18. Why Veterinarian Oversight?
● Veterinarians are viewed as having the necessary experience and
accountability to prescribe antibiotics – just like physicians
- Therapeutic indications!
● Disease presentation, diagnostics, client relationship and other considerations
require veterinary expertise to integrate into a medication decision
● Consistent with Responsible Use Principles

19. Consensus Clinical Practice Guidelines
(directed to veterinarian)
● Prevention strategies emphasized
- Minimize
Mi i i environmental contamination; vaccinate; bi
i t l t i ti i t biosecurity, nutrition,
it t iti
housing, management at high levels
● Minimize therapeutic use
- Treat only at-risk or ill animals
● Utilize
only licensed products by label directions; exercise clinical
judgment for off-label usages
● Utili
Utilize culture and sensitivity
lt d iti it
● Use narrow spectrum antibiotics when possible
● Vet-client-patient
p relationship encouraged (
p g (mandatory in some
y
countries)
● Record keeping
● Periodically review usage practices

20. Regulatory
● Regulatory agencies for veterinary medicines should have specific antimicrobial
guidelines and scientific expertise available
● A stable, predictable risk assessment guideline, based on the OIE approach,
should guide product evaluations as part of the approval process
● Harmonisation o regulatory gu de es a e suppo ted
a o sat o of egu ato y guidelines are supported
- VICH
- OIE Risk Assessment
- AMR monitoring
- Antimicrobial Sales / Use data monitoring
● Novel antimicrobial agents may require unique regulatory reviews
- For example, bacteriophages or novel peptides or immune enhancing agents
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21. Research
● New antimicrobials for animal health will be needed in the future
● Cost: up to $100M USD
● Time: 7-10 years (concept to launch)
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22. EPRUMA…parting thought
It is essential that all parties work together to ensure safe use and to minimise the
development of resistance. A guiding principle with respect to antimicrobials
should be:
“As little as poss b e, as much as necessary”
s tt e possible, uc ecessa y
We owe it to both present and future generations to use these agents with care and
discrimination.
discrimination In this way those to come will benefit as we have from these
way, benefit, have,
valuable medicines.
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