supermarket chicken samples contain antibiotic-resistant E coli

One in four samples of chicken bought from major supermarket chains contained antibiotic-resistant E coli in a psychoanalysis by the University of Cambridge.

The bacterium was discovered in packs of meat sold at Tesco, Salisbury, Adas, Aldis, Wait rose, the Co-op and Morrison's. Scientists tested products such as entire sum roasting chickens, diced breast meat and packets of legs, thighs and drumsticks, detecting ES-BL E coli  resistant to many types of antibiotics  as regards 22 of 92 samples.

The psychotherapy, commissioned by the whisk charity Save Our Antibiotics, in addition to found 51% of E coli from pork and poultry samples were resistant to the antibiotic impropriety, which is used to treat in minister to-thinking than half of lower urinary tract infections

Dr Mark Holmes, from the University of Cambridge, studied 189 chicken and pork samples. He told the Daily Mail: The levels of resistant E coli that we have found are unbearable. Every times someone falls knocked out the weather, on the other hand of just getting a food poisoning bug they might also be getting a bug that is antibiotic resistant.

People developing urinary tract infections may discover that the bug they have is resistant to a first-unconventional antibiotic, and by the grow out of date a enough one is found the bug could be out of run, potentially leading to death.

“I am concerned that insufficient resources are being put into the surveillance of antibiotic resistance in farm animals and retail meat,” Holmes said. “These results highlight the need for improvements in antibiotic stewardship in veterinary medicine.”
Cóilín Nunan, a scientific adviser to Save Our Antibiotics, said the findings should be a wake-up call for supermarkets and the government.
“They show that many consumers are being exposed to high levels of antibiotic resistance daily at meal time,” Nunan said. “Scientific evidence is accumulating that the overuse of antibiotics on farms is an important contributor to antibiotic resistance in E coli infections.