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Today, we will talk about
antimicrobial resistance,
trying to build up
a One Health-based outlook
to this major issue.
First of all, I will
just introduce myself.
I'm Alberto Mantovani,
I'm a veterinarian,
I'm a member of the Italian
National Food Safety Committee,
I was a member of
the Italian National
Health Institute
until my retirement
in March (last year)
and currently an expert on
different international
organizations like
the FAO and European
Organization,
like the European
Chemical Agency (ECHA),
and the European Food
Safety Authority (EFSA).
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So, what is One Health (OH)?
One Health is becoming
a fashionable word,
a commonly used word
and this is certainly good.
It is a step forward, but in
order for One Health to become
part of everyday action,
we should look at how One
Health has change is meaning.
I first heard about One Health
when I was a veterinary student,
in fact, in the 70s
and then in the 80s.
One Health mainly meant
the medical veterinary
collaboration on zoonoses,
the infection that are
transmitted between humans
and the other animals.
Well, obviously zoonoses are
still important in One Health,
but there's much more.
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The increasing relevance
of One Health in
many field of environment
and health protection has
led the four international
agencies of the United Nations
to adopt an operational
definition in December 2021.
The four international
agencies are the WHO
obviously, dealing
with human health,
the FAO dealing with all
the agri-food chain,
the World Organization
for Animal Health,
which is the WHO for animals,
for veterinary medicine,
and very important
the United Nations
Organization on Environment,
the UNEP, joined also the team.
Is an integrated and
unified approach
that recognize the
many interconnection
between the health of humans,
of domestic and wild
animals, and also of
other living beings
like plants and
the wider environment,
which includes ecosystems.
The ecosystems are complex
and resilient networks.
So, not just considering
together humans,
other living beings
and environment
composed by climate,
soil, water, whatever,
that ecosystem therefore
the interconnections so
the relationships within
these different components.
Therefore, the One Health
necessarily involves
multiple sectors,
disciplines, and
components of society.
No one is the owner
of One Health, but
everybody can contribute
significantly to One Health.
I have been note this that
the European concept of
food safety is largely
One Health without
mentioning One Health
according to the White
Paper on Food Safety 2000,
so where more than 20 years ago,
the safety of food must be
protected from farm to fork.
Starting from the
living organism,
plants and animals
that produce food,
and this is One Health.
There are key words
in One Health.
