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Retail meat from pigs, chickens and other livestock could be infected with a "superbug" strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), according to a UK study released today.
The prospect of MRSA in the food chain could spark off another consumer reaction against meat products, already suffering from a bad perception due to past outbreaks of bird flu, food-and-mouth disease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
In the Netherlands, the MRSA strain has been found in 20 percent of pork, 21 percent of chicken and 3 percent of beef on sale to the public, the UK’s Soil Association stated in the study.
