Risk Assessment of the Public Health Impact of Streptogramin Resistance in Enterococcus faecium Attributable to the Use of Streptogramins in Animals; Request for Comments and for Scientific Data and Information

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), is announcing plans to develop a prototypic risk assessment (RA) model that accounts for the transfer of resistance determinants from bacteria in food-producing animals to bacteria in humans. The agency requests comments on their approach to the RA model and requests that scientific data and information relevant to the conduct of the RA be submitted. This model will be applied to assess the association between the development of streptogramin (quinupristin/ dalfopristin (QD)) resistant Enterococcus faecium in humans and the use of virginiamycin in food-producing animals. The center will attempt to use the RA model to quantify the human health impact attributable both to direct acquisition of resistant E. faecium from food-producing animals and to the transfer of resistance determinants from E. faecium in food-producing animals to E. faecium in humans.