Description

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