Food Safety and Security
Following antimicrobial-resistant bacteria along the food chain and through the environment, from farms and abattoirs to workers, children and communities.
Why it matters
Our goal
Document, understand and prevent the circulation of resistant bacteria in the food chain and the environment, to reduce transmission to humans and support food safety and environmental protection policies.
Specific objectives
What the programme sets out to achieve.
Characterise resistant bacteria circulating in animal production systems, food and high-risk environments.
Analyse transmission routes between animals, workers, children and communities.
Assess the health and economic impact of antimicrobial resistance in the food chain.
Develop and test targeted interventions in hygiene, biosecurity and diagnostics.
Main activities
- Integrated surveillance across livestock, workers, children and the environment
- Microbiological and genomic analysis of food and environmental isolates
- Economic cost and health impact studies
- Implementation and evaluation of hygiene and biosecurity interventions
- Field-adapted diagnostic tools
Funded projects
Competitive grants carried by this programme. Click a project to open its page.
Milestones ahead
Deliverables planned under the institute’s strategic plan.
- Integrated livestock–food–environment surveillance systems
- Intervention studies in hygiene and biosecurity in priority value chains
- Assessment of the health and economic impact of AMR in the food chain
- Field-adapted diagnostic and surveillance tools