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- Overview:
- The pork chops you buy in the supermarket neatly packaged in plastic and styrofoam may look completely sterile, but are, in fact, likely to be contaminated with disease-causing bacteria - and not with just any old bugs, but with hard-to-treat, antibiotic resistant strains. In a recently published study, researchers with the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System bought meat from a wide sampling of chain grocery stores across the country and analyzed the bacteria on the meat. Resistant microbes were found in 81% of ground turkey samples, 69% of pork chops, 55% of ground beef samples, and 39% of chicken parts.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Level:
- High School, Community College / Lower Division, College / Upper Division
- Material Type:
- Diagram/Illustration, Reading
- Provider:
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- Provider Set:
- Understanding Evolution
- Date Added:
- 05/01/2013
- License:
- Some Rights Reserved
- Language:
- English
- Media Format:
- Graphics/Photos, Text/HTML
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