摘要：Antimicrobial resistance is a growing public health concern and is associated with the over- or
inappropriate use of antimicrobials in both humans and agriculture. While there has been reco-
gnition of this problem on the part of agricultural and public health authorities, there has none-
theless been significant difficulty in translating policy recommendations into practical guidelines.
In this paper, we examine the process of public health policy development in Quebec agriculture,
with a focus on the case of pork production and the role of food animal veterinarians in policy
making.We argue that a tendency to employ strictly techno-scientific risk analyses of antimicro-
bial use ignores the fundamental social, economic and political realities of key stakeholders and
so limits the applicability of policy recommendations developed by government advisory groups.
In particular, we suggest that veterinarians’ personal and professional interests, and their ethi-
cal norms of practice, are key factors to both the problem of and the solution to the current
over-reliance on antimicrobials in food production.
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