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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has a need for a NARMS Retail Meat Sample Collection and Testing. NARMS retail sampling helps FDA understand consumer... The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) has a need for a NARMS Retail Meat Sample Collection and Testing. NARMS retail sampling helps FDA understand consumers’ risk of antimicrobial resistant bacterial exposure. Currently, retail sampling takes place in 24 states through cooperative agreements with state public health laboratories and academic institutions. The sampling scheme is designed such that collectors purchase meats and seafood from supermarkets in both urban and rural areas, with the frequency of urban/rural sampling weighted by state population. Because retail samples are not collected in all states, an expansion of the sampling area to include cities/ rural areas not currently covered helps to improve representativeness and robustness of the data.