Ms Laura Burke:

The agency does not have a role on the antibiotics side of things under that regulation, that is with the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. However, we would feed in on antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance. There is a specific national plan on antimicrobial resistance into which the agency has fed. The EPA is on the working group for that plan, identifying the environmental aspects involved and has done research in the area. Industrial emissions, however, are not within the remit of the EPA.