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By Anna Lavery and Aimee Craig, Livestock Production Sciences Branch, AFBI Hillsborough It is well documented that antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious threat to human health, and has the potential to contribute to 10m deaths per year by 2050 if changes are not implemented. As a result, there is increasing pressure to reduce antibiotic use within the livestock sector. For that reason, the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (AFBI), in partnership with AgriSearch, Animal Health and Welfare Northern Ireland, Livestock and Meat Commission (LMC) and Farm Vet Systems, is leading a major research project entitled ‘STrategic AntiMicrobial use in Dairy, Beef and Lamb Production’ (STAMP). This project is co-funded through DAERA’s Research Challenge Fund.