Table 1.

Level of development of each country’s national legislation on antibiotic use and AMR bacteria.

Categories	Argentina	Brazil	Colombia	Chile	Uruguay
Marketing authorization	Strong	Strong	Strong	Strong	Strong
Container labelling and advertising	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate
Distributors	Intermediate	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate	Strong
Prescribers	Weak	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate
Therapeutic use	Weak	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate
Metaphylactic use	Weak	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate
Preventive use	Weak	Intermediate	Weak	Intermediate	Weak
Growth promotion use	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Strong	Intermediate
Off-label use	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate
Food animal producer	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Strong	Strong
Monitoring and surveillance	Strong	Strong	Strong	Intermediate	Weak
Pharmacovigilance	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate

Source: the authors. Colour green: Country has a regulation similar to OIE, FAO, WHO gold standards or proposed an advanced regulation; Colour yellow: Country filled at least half of the criteria established by gold standard; Colour orange: Country filled less than fifty percent of the criteria’s.