Comprehensively Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Improving Food Safety and Achieving the One Health Goals: Global Challenges

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue (SI) entitled "Comprehensively Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Improving Food Safety and Achieving the One Health Goals: Global Challenges" is devoted to punctilious and pedantic written, scientifically and expertly based research papers, reviews, and communications.

The objective of this SI is to cover all critical aspects of mitigating the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) challenge and crisis in a comprehensive manner and with due diligence. We expect insightful, efficient, and effective solutions to the enigmatic connection between food safety and antibiotic resistance. We strongly encourage the submission of results of inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary studies whose research leads to the development and application of strategies for the responsible use of antibiotics in order to prevent their uncontrolled use in veterinary medicine, animal feed production, and in the broadest sense of use in agriculture and aquaculture, assessing the impact of strategic activities on human health. Our goal is to facilitate and enable the implementation of the discussed strategies by nurturing a dynamic and interactive community of authors and readers. We expect and encourage lively debates on the latest research findings and strive to promote new innovative ideas and research paths.

This Special Issue, entitled "Comprehensively Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Improving Food Safety and Achieving the One Health Goals: Global Challenges", will feature high-quality papers that will highlight the latest, innovative technologies and processes in the design, development, and application of safe conventional, improved, and novel food products.

By creating topics, we make it possible to combine different approaches to research, whose visions and time horizons are as far-reaching as possible. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Influence of AMR on food safety from farm to table;
• Investigations of the application of antibiotics in the most diverse matrices and contexts of food design and production;
• Molecular characterization of antibiotic-resistant (MDR, XDR, and PDR strains) in foodborne pathogens;
• Role of alternatives to antibiotics in mitigating the antimicrobial resistance crisis;
• Food safety through natural antimicrobials;
• Probiotics and prebiotics: valuable tool in minimizing AMR;
• One health approach: human and animal health surveillance and monitoring for multi-drug-resistant organisms; research on contemporary antimicrobial, infection-control, and preventive/therapeutic programs; development and approval of new AMA; and development of rapid diagnostic tests and new vaccines;
• Training and capacity-building: creation and promotion of different levels of education on AMR and prevention of the uncontrolled, harmful use of antibiotics;
• Use and misuse of antibiotics: development and spread of AMR;
• Modern monitoring of antibiotic residues in animal products;
• Consequences of infections and foodborne diseases caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria;
• Spread of resistant bacteria and resistance genes from food-producing animals to humans through the food chain;
• National coordination and international cooperation in the prevention and containment of AMR in the food chain;
• Regulations for reduced use of antibiotics in animal feed;
• Dam for a growing problem: holistic intersector cooperation between policymakers and public health, agri-food, and veterinary authorities on food safety and the prevention and containment of AMR.

Manuscripts addressing additional aspects of "Comprehensively Addressing Antimicrobial Resistance, Improving Food Safety and Achieving the One Health Goals: Global Challenges" are also welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kurćubić
Dr. Pavle Mašković
Prof. Dr. Milan Mitić
Dr. Nikola Stanišić
Guest Editors

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• antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
• food safety
• foodborne pathogens
• antibiotic residues
• natural antimicrobials
• one health