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Does the food we buy in the supermarkets contain antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
Due to the use of antimicrobials in husbandry, resistant microbes develop in animals during their growth and can stay in the meat/egg/milk post slaughter. In turn, these bacteria can potentially survive through the food chain, end up on our plate and then cause potentially severe illnesses in humans with few antimicrobials available to treat (WHO, 2017). Some common examples of pathogens often found in food are Salmonella, Listeria, and E. Coli.
