| Israel | European Union countries | United states of America | Australia | Japan |
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Use of growth promoters | Prohibited since 2018 | Prohibited since 2006 | Prohibited since 2017 | Restrictions only on the use of antimicrobials important to human health | Partially restricted—Colistin is prohibited |
Collecting data on sales and use of antimicrobials | None, except for a voluntary survey on sale data form wholesalers conducted in 2014 by the Veterinary Services and Animal Health unit of Israel | Started voluntarily in 2009 and became obligatory in 2019 | Data regarding antimicrobial sales by animal species collected since 2016 | Data regarding antimicrobial sales in the country are partial (last report from 2014) | Data regarding antimicrobial sales by animal species collected since 2000 |
Monitoring antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals | No centralized system—antimicrobial resistance in foodborne pathogens is monitored by the Government Central Laboratories in MOH. Antimicrobial resistance in pathogens of animals is partially monitored by the Kimron Veterinary Institute in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development | Not yet coordinated at the European Union level, however many countries monitor antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals | Data regarding antimicrobial resistance in food-producing animals, retail meat products, and foodborne pathogens are collected by the US Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Agriculture and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System | None | Monitored by the Japanese Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System |
List of critically important antimicrobials to human medicine | None. Partially adopted the European Union list (category A) | European Union list | The US Food and Drug Administration published a list in 2003, which has yet to be revised since | Regional adapted list published in 2018 | Regional adapted list published in 2014 |
Current national One Health action plan against antimicrobial resistance | Yet to be implemented | ‘A European One Health action plan against antimicrobial resistance, published in 2017 | ‘National action plan for combating antimicrobial resistance 2020-2025’, published in 2020 | ‘Australia’s National Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy—2020 and beyond’, published in 2020 | ‘National Action Plan on antimicrobial resistance 2016-2020’, published in 2016 |