Phfe/ceip Narms Retail Food Surveillance Program

Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. for California Emerging Infections ProgramPAR-16-099Project SummaryThe National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) is a national surveillancesystem that monitors the susceptibility of enteric bacteria to medically relevant antimicrobialsin order to help assess the impact of veterinary antimicrobial use on human health. The NARMSRetail Food Surveillance Program, a collaborative project between the Food and DrugAdministration Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CMV), the CDC, and state and local healthdepartments, supports this mission by improving detection of and surveillance for antimicrobialresistance among enteric bacteria in raw retail meat commodities. To achieve this goal, wepropose to purchase 80 retail food samples per month (including 40 bone-in chicken, 20 groundturkey, 10 ground beef, and 10 pork chops) from randomly sampled retail markets in Alameda,Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties. Raw meat will be delivered to the Contra Costa PublicHealth Laboratory (CCPHL) where microbiologists will attempt to isolate Salmonella from allmeat samples and Campylobacter from poultry samples only. All isolates will be forwarded toFDA/CMV for antibiotic resistance testing. For each product purchased, we will record the storename and location, brand name, sell-by date, purchase date, packaging type, and the country oforigin, when available. In addition to monitoring the prevalence of bacteria and trends inantimicrobial resistance in raw meat, these data are vital to foodborne outbreak investigationsand help to inform parameters for antimicrobial use in veterinary medicine. These data will beshared with relevant partners and can be used by public health professionals to promoteinterventions to reduce resistance among foodborne bacteria.