Policy Position Papers
Opportunities and Threats to Widespread Adoption of Bacterial Standards for Agricultural Water
Edward R. Atwill, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Director, Western Institute for Food Safety and Security,
School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, D...
Within the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule are new standards for the maximum allowable concentration of the indicator bacte...
Water as an Essential Element in Food Safety
Robert E. Brackett, Ph.D.
Vice President, Illinois Institute of Technology; and Director, Institute for Food Safety and
Health, Bedford Park, Illino...
Most public health officials understand that contaminated food and water can be important
contributors to both infectious and chronic diseases. What ...
Improving Livestock Water Productivity
Iain A. Wright, Ph.D.
Program Leader, Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity,
International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Demand for livestock products is increasing rapidly in the developing world as a consequence of
population growth, rising incomes, urbanization, and ...
Global Infection Prevention: A Strategy to Minimize Antibiotic Resistance
Richard P. Wenzel, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor and Former Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
Infecti...
Antimicrobial Resistance A New Drug Discovery Perspective Using Synthetic Biology
Eriko Takano, Ph.D., Rainer Breitling, Ph.D.
Professor of Synthetic Biology and Professor of Systems Biology, Manchester Institute of
Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manch...
The Future of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance
Brad Spellberg, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Services, Los Angeles
Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical ...
Managing Antibiotic Resistance in Animal Agriculture amidst Conflicting Moral Beliefs and Scientific Uncertainty
H. Morgan Scott, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Summary
The moral imperative to ...
Mitigating Antibiotic Resistance with DNA Sequence Information
Timothy Palzkill, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
Antibiotic resistance is a gr...
Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance Gene Epidemics
Thomas F. O’Brien M.D, John Stelling, M.D., M.P.H.
Co-Directors, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial
Resistance,
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women...
How Misaligned Incentives Influence Antibiotic Prescribing and Resistance
Eili Y. Klein, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences,
Department of Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Uni...