CFA joins consumer, health, and environmental advocacy groups in asking the U.S. Mission to the United Nations to recognize the role of agriculture in the selection and spread of antibiotic resistance, and to promote multi-sectoral action in stewardship, innovation, surveillance and all other areas covered in the Political Declaration that member states will issue following the United Nations High-Level Meeting on Antimicrobial Resistance, to be held September 21^st. The advocates further ask that  the U.S. support a new United Nations mechanism to help coordinate efforts to combat antibiotic resistance across nationalities and across the various U.N. agencies, as well as a report-back mechanism for that body to periodically transmit findings to the Secretary General and the members.  The high-level meeting will mark just the fourth time that UN member discuss a health topic at the General Assembly, with previous meetings targeting HIV, noncommunicable diseases, and Ebola.