2024-01-12 20:34:05
Mexico City, January 12, 2024
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development operates a new strategy at the national level to stop antimicrobial resistance and its actions are aligned with the recommendations of the WHO, FAO, WHOSA and UNEP, under the One Health concept.
Starting in 2023, actions against AMR involve strengthening surveillance in the food chain to encourage veterinarians and producers to apply hygiene and sanitary measures to reduce the use of medications intended to combat infections in animals.
Every year, around 700,000 people die worldwide from infections caused by drug-resistant microorganisms.
High concentrations of pharmaceutical products with antimicrobial characteristics have been identified in surface and underground waters of Mexico City.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development highlighted the importance of considering food safety and the proper use of drugs in veterinary medicine, as strategic axes to attack the global problem of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Within the framework of the celebration of World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (AMR), the Secretariat of Agriculture and Rural Development recognized the importance of food safety and the proper use of drugs in veterinary medicine, such as strategic axes to attack this global problem.
Agriculture strengthened its strategy for AMR surveillance, which is aligned with the recommendations of the World Health Organizations (WHO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Animal Health Organization (WHOSA) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), under the One Health concept.
Thus, starting in 2023, Senasica’s actions against AMR involve strengthening surveillance in the food chain to encourage veterinarians and producers to apply hygiene and sanitary measures to reduce the use of medications intended to combat infections in animals.
Also, in the area of safety, Agriculture operates strategies to strengthen the production of foods free of microbiological contaminants, in order to prevent their dispersion in the environment and increase resistance to antimicrobials.
For the 2023 commemoration of World AMR Awareness Week, the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica) organized two virtual forums with international specialists, in coordination with the General Health Council.
During the forum: “An environmental perspective”, the head of Sequencing and Bioinformatics of the National Reference Center for Agri-Food Safety and Biosafety (CNRIBA), Fabiola Hernández Pérez, highlighted that the member agencies of the Technical Subcommittee focused on Environmental Health (SCRAM-A ) have the knowledge and technology to generate scientific evidence on the problem that AMR represents in areas such as the food chain, wildlife, soil, wastewater and rainwater.
The director of General Information on Environmental Health of the National Center for Preventive Programs and Disease Control (Cenaprece), Gabriela Domínguez Cortinas, specified that ecosystems function as a reservoir of antimicrobials and resistant microorganisms that spread to living beings through water, the ground and the air.
According to studies, he noted, high concentrations of pharmaceutical products with antimicrobial characteristics, such as trimethoprim, erythromycin, naproxen, ibuprofen, diclofenac, ketoprofen and carbamazepine.
These residues contribute to microorganisms with a large presence in the environment, such as E. Coli, to adapt and acquire genes resistant to medications, he said.
The founder and executive director of the Resistomap Oy research center in Helsinki, Finland, Windi Muziasari, pointed out that to stop AMR, it is essential to identify, characterize and monitor the level of resistance of microorganisms in infection flows where resistance develops. .
He highlighted that AMR requires the use of cutting-edge technology, as it requires molecular genetic methods and data analysis. In this regard, since 2019 the Center has processed more than 10,000 environmental samples from 45 countries, Mexico included, he added.
It should be noted that in 2018 the CNRIBA was designated by the WHO as a Collaborating Center on AMR to monitor microorganisms that are present in food and the environment.
With this designation, Mexico joined the United States, Costa Rica and Argentina, as the only countries on the continent that collaborate with the WHO on AMR and the only one in Latin America focused on the agri-food safety sector.
In accordance with the mission of the Network of Collaborating Centers for AMR Quality Surveillance and Evaluation, Mexico supports the countries of Central America, the Caribbean and South America to develop their capacities and implement AMR surveillance in the short and medium term. RAM throughout the region.
To date, our country has provided technical advice to Nicaragua, Cuba, Brazil and Ecuador for the implementation of whole genome sequencing protocols for bacteria that can cause diseases in humans.
On the other hand, the National Center for Diagnostic Services in Animal Health (Cenasa) of Senasica held a virtual forum in which it highlighted the work carried out in reference laboratories in terms of genomic sequencing of multiple bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that are resistant to drugs, with the aim of timely reporting their results to national and international bodies.
The director of Cenasa, Carlos Jasso Villazul, stressed that AMR is a growing health threat to animal health, derived from the fact that antimicrobials are used indiscriminately and unnecessarily when administered to healthy animals or those suffering from a disease that could be controlled with another type of medications.
During the conference, specialists from the veterinary and pharmaceutical sectors shared information about treatment alternatives that favor the reduction of antibiotics in the livestock and aquaculture sector, such as vaccination.
It should be noted that AMR is a natural adaptation phenomenon that microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites develop in the presence of antimicrobial medications.
This process generates the appearance of microorganisms resistant to the drugs used to treat infections, which causes severe problems in public and animal health, since it makes it difficult to control infections.
Currently, it is estimated that around 700,000 people in the world die each year from infections caused by this type of microorganisms and it is estimated that by 2050 this number will rise to 10 million.
Text and Photo: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
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