NEW research aired by ABC's 7.30 Report last night revealed the presence of multi-antibiotic-resistant bacteria in chicken and pork meat sold in Australian supermarkets.
The most alarming discovery was bacteria harbouring three different variants of a gene conferring resistance to the antibiotic colistin, a life-saving drug of last resort for the most severe infections that have proven to be multi-drug resistant in hospital patients.
Animals Australia commissioned the University of Canberra's Host-Microbe Interactions Research Group to examine the level of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria in chicken and pork meat sold by supermarket chains.
They obtained 244 raw packaged chicken and 160 raw packaged pork meat samples from Aldi, Coles, IGA and Woolworths stores across metropolitan and regional New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.
The key findings include:
33 types of bacterial species that cause infection in humans were in the samples.
All the bacterial species showed resistance to at least one class of antibiotics that are classified as critically or highly important by the World Health Organization.
12% of the bacteria found had multi-drug resistance to antibiotics used in humans.
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