Brazil launched National Program for Monitoring of Resistance to Antimicrobials in Fisheries Resources

Secretariat of Monitoring and Control of Fisheries and Aquaculture notified that the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture established the National Program for the Monitoring of Resistance to Antimicrobials in Fisheries Resources, in order to guarantee the sustainability of aquatic animal production systems and the health of fisheries resources and their products obtained from national cultivated organisms. It also sets the scope and methodologies to be applied within the Program for the Monitoring of Resistance to Antimicrobials in Fisheries Resources for the taxonomic group of finfish.

Products covered: Animal products used as food or feed

HS Codes: 04, 02, 0504, 0505, 0506, 0511, 1501, 1502, 1504, 1506, 151610, 1518, 152190, 16

Proposed date of adoption: 2 January 2015

Proposed date of entry into force: 2 January 2015

Final date for comments: not applicable

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