06 May 2010
The Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM)- USA,
announced the availability of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring Systems' Enteric Bacteria (NARMS) 2007 Executive Report.
The report summarizes, in an integrated format, National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System data on Salmonella (non-typhoidal) and Campylobacter recovered in 2007 from food animals at federally inspected slaughter and processing plants, retail meats, and human clinical
cases. In addition, the report includes susceptibility data for Escherichia coli recovered from retail meats and chicken carcasses in 2007. Summary data from prior years are also included.