Spanish researchers found the presence of multidrug-resistant E. coli in 40 percent of supermarket meat samples they tested.
are especially common since they can so easily develop and spread through unsafe meat production, handling, and cooking processes. When you eat foods contaminated with these bacteria, they infect your gastrointestinal tract leading to horrible cramps, diarrhea, and fever.
That’s why the study authors took a look at the presence of drug-resistant bacteria in supermarket meat—specifically. To reach their findings, the researchers analyzed 100 meat products chosen from supermarkets in Oviedo, Spain in 2020. This included 25 each of beef, chicken, pork, and turkey.. However, 49 percent contained multidrug-resistant E. coli and/or potentially pathogenic versions of the bacteria.
“Strategies at farm level, such as vaccines, to reduce the presence of specific multidrug-resistant and pathogenic bacteria in food-producing animals, which would reduce the meat carriage and consumer risk,” Azucena Mora Gutiérrez, a microbiologist at the University of Santiago de Compostela-Lugo in Spain and co-author of the study, said in a statement.
Gutiérrez added that consumers also play “a key role in food safety through proper food handling.” This means ensuring that the meat is properly refrigerated as soon as it’s brought home from the grocery store, cooking it to safe temperatures, and disinfecting tools like knives and chopping boards during the preparation process.
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