Research Combats Antibiotic-resistant Pathogens in Poultry

German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture Grants Amounting to 2.46 Million Euros for EsRAM Research Collaboration Based at Freie Universität Berlin That Studies Ways to Reduce Antibiotic-resistant Pathogens in Poultry / Five Press Images The German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) is sponsoring a new research network to explore antibiotic-resistant pathogens in poultry and ultimately, to reduce them. It is being coordinated at Freie Universität Berlin. On Tuesday in Berlin, Federal Minister Christian Schmidt presented the funding decisions totaling 2.46 million euros to the designated of the network, the director of the Institute of Animal and Environmental Hygiene at the Center for Infectious Diseases at Freie Universität, Uwe Rösler, and the representatives of the other project partners. Besides Freie Universität, the partners in EsRAM are the University of Gießen, the University of Leipzig, the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Potsdam-Bornim, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Berlin, and the Friedrich Loeffler Institute in Jena. The main commercial partners are the Central Association of the German Poultry Industry (Zentralverband der Deutschen Geflügelwirtschaft e. V.) and two international companies in the field of biologics research. The abbreviation EsRAM stands for "Entwicklung stufenübergreifender Reduktionsmaßnahmen für antibiotikaresistente Erreger beim Mastgeflügel" (Development of Reduction Measures for Antibiotic-resistant Pathogens in Poultry). The funding is for a three-year period.