The main foods carrying antimicrobial resistant bacteria were poultry meat, eggs, pork or beef as well as fresh salads, which can be contaminated during preparation, handling and processing, it said.
The panel found bacteria could be passed directly to people from contaminated food of animal origin carrying resistant bacteria which could colonize or infect people after ingestion.
Bacteria could also be passed to humans by the consumption of fresh produce from land irrigated with water contaminated by slurry or sewage. Food of animal and non-animal origin could also be contaminated during handling and preparation.
What this means is that bacteria are going to increase their resistance even more. Picture drug-resistant strains of E. coli or other bacteria coming to the U.S. from Argentinean beef or Chilean grapes and swapping genes with U.S. based strains of E. coli. Now do you see the problem?
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