What risk does crop irrigation with reclaimed municipal wastewater represent with respect to the transmission of antimicrobial resistance to humans? - INRAE - Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement
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What risk does crop irrigation with reclaimed municipal wastewater represent with respect to the transmission of antimicrobial resistance to humans?

Alain Hartmann
Fabrice Martin-Laurent
Daniel Martak
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Background and Aim: Climate change associated water stress in the dry southern regions of Europe, Australia and the US South West is threatening food security. In this context, irrigation of crop ground with effluent from municipal wastewater treatment plants is a practice that is become more widely adopted. Sewage effluents can contain pharmaceuticals, other micropollutants, and enteric bacteria including those that carry antibiotic resistance genes. The European Commission has recently set standards for the quality of effluents to be used in crop production with the abundance of viable E. coli as the only microbiological endpoint of concern. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/publications/minimum-requirements-water-reuse- guidelines_en. There is currently no provision for including risk of AMR transmission in the standards. Therefore, the key aim of the work to be done here is to provide policy makers with evidence concerning what risk this practice might represent from the perspective of AMR transmission, and options for managing transmission risk.
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hal-04684163 , version 1 (02-09-2024)
hal-04684163 , version 2 (02-09-2024)

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Edward Topp, Laura Alvarez-Fraga, Pierre Benoit, Marjolaine Bourdat-Deschamps, Alain Hartmann, et al.. What risk does crop irrigation with reclaimed municipal wastewater represent with respect to the transmission of antimicrobial resistance to humans?. Environmental Dimension of Antimicrobial Resistance 7, May 2024, Montreal, Canada. ⟨hal-04684163v2⟩
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