Decades of recommendations that antibiotic use data be collected from farms and feedlots

The FDA’s Science Advisory Board highlighted the need for on farm antibiotic use data in 2007 and 2017. The Government Accountability Office has made recurrent recommendations for on-farm data collection in reports issued in 2004, 2011, and 2017. And the 2001 Interagency Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, co-chaired by the CDC, the FDA, and the National Institutes of Health, made collection of antibiotic use data and better surveillance a top priority in its Public Health Action Plan.

The World Health Organization and the World Animal Health Organization all recommend the collection of data on antibiotic use in food animals.