by Matthew Heller
FairWarning.org

High levels of drug-resistant strains of bacteria that cause staph infections are present in nearly half of the meat and poultry sold at U.S. grocery stores, a study says. And researchers found that the food animals themselves — rather than processing or storage practices — generally are the source of the contamination.

Experts from the Translational Genomics Research Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research center in Phoenix, analyzed beef, chicken, pork and turkey from 26 stores in conducting the first assessment of antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the nation’s food supply.

The analysis, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases, showed that 47 percent of the samples were contaminated with the widespread S. aureus,  and 52 percent of those bacteria were resistant to at least three classes of antibiotics. “For the first time, we know how much of our meat and poultry is contaminated with antibiotic-resistant Staph, and it is substantial,” Dr. Lance B. Price, senior author of the study, said in a news release.

Read the full article here: http://www.fairwarning.org/2011/04/high-levels-of-drug-resistant-bacteria-found-in-meat-and-poultry/

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