Consumer Reports: Dangerous bacteria on 90 percent of ground turkey tested
Source: CBS News
Consumer Reports testing has revealed potentially-dangerous bacteria found in randomly tested ground turkey products sold at U.S. stores, some of which were antibiotic-resistant.
Furthermore, the first-laboratory analysis of this kind conducted by the group revealed that turkey raised without antibiotics had much less antibiotic-resistant bacteria than turkey raised with antibiotics.
"Our findings strongly suggest that there is a direct relationship between the routine use of antibiotics in animal production and increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria on ground turkey. It's very concerning that antibiotics fed to turkeys are creating resistance to antibiotics used in human medicine," Dr. Urvashi Rangan, director of the food safety and sustainability group at Consumer Reports, said in a press release. "Humans don't consume antibiotics every day to prevent disease and neither should healthy animals."
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Bacteria found on products that had "no antibiotics," were labeled "organic," or were "raised without antibiotics" were resistant to fewer antibiotics, the analysis found. For turkeys raised with antibiotics, there was much more resistance to types of antibiotics used in healthy turkeys in order to stimulate growth and prevent disease than those that are not approved for those goals.
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57582084/consumer-reports-dangerous-bacteria-on-90-percent-of-ground-turkey-tested/
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