Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Program in Food-Producing Animals in Japan

Antimicrobial agents are essential for human and animal health and welfare, but antimicrobial use can lead to antimicrobial resistance. The resistance arising from antimicrobial use in food-producing animals represents a potential hazard to human medicine through foodborne infection caused by resistant bacteria. In Japan, the Japanese Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (JVARM) was formed in 1999 in response to international...