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Proc 9541ProclamationObama · DCeremonial

Proclamation 9541

Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, 2016

This proclamation designates November 13-19, 2016 as 'Get Smart About Antibiotics Week' to raise public awareness about antibiotic resistance caused by misuse and overuse of antibiotics. It highlights the Obama Administration's prior actions on this issue, including a 2014 Executive Order creating a federal task force and a National Action Plan, but contains no new policy mandates or directives.

Federal Register Open PDF 81 FR 80985

Impact dates

  1. Start of Get Smart About Antibiotics Week

Key directives

No discrete directives extracted.

Timeline

Immediate

  • Proclamation of November 13-19, 2016 as Get Smart About Antibiotics Week

Near term (90d)

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Long term

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Risks & tensions

  • Document references prior administration actions but creates no new obligations; awareness-raising value unclear without funding or enforcement mechanisms
Proclamation 9541: Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, 2016 · Executive Orders