The European Commission is continuing to fight resistance to antimicrobials (AMR) and began a public consultation on Friday 27 January to help it draw up an action plan on AMR to be unveiled this year, before the summer break.
Resistance to antimicrobials is micro-organisms’ ability to resist treatment with antibiotics which used to eliminate them in the past. According to European Commission estimates, AMR is responsible each year in the EU for 25,000 deaths among human beings, costing...