The pork chops you buy in the supermarket neatly packaged in plastic …
The pork chops you buy in the supermarket neatly packaged in plastic and styrofoam may look completely sterile, but are, in fact, likely to be contaminated with disease-causing bacteria - and not with just any old bugs, but with hard-to-treat, antibiotic resistant strains. In a recently published study, researchers with the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System bought meat from a wide sampling of chain grocery stores across the country and analyzed the bacteria on the meat. Resistant microbes were found in 81% of ground turkey samples, 69% of pork chops, 55% of ground beef samples, and 39% of chicken parts.
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"Antibiotics are commonly used as both therapeutics and growth promoters in the poultry industry. Antibiotic use in animal husbandry has been linked to proliferation of antimicrobial resistance, but current evidence is indirect. To examine this problem directly, researchers studied the impact of the growth promoter bacitracin and the therapeutic antibiotic enrofloxacin on microbiomes and resistomes. They sampled both cloacal swabs and litter as proxies of gut and environmentally-disseminated microbiomes, coupling standard isolation and metagenomic methodologies. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria and resistance genes were ubiquitous in both the gut and litter and most of the variation in the microbiomes and resistomes was attributable to either growth stage or sample source. But, bacitracin-fed birds had higher levels of bacitracin resistance genes, and a greater proportion of their Enterococcaceae population was vancomycin-resistant..."
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