40 Percent of Supermarket Meat May Have ‘Superbugs’

While the TV show Beef might be trending on Netflix, new research might have you avoiding the genuine article at your grocery store.

Spanish researchers found the presence of multidrug-resistant E. coli in 40 percent of supermarket meat samples they tested. While the majority of the meat tested had levels of E. coli that were within food safety guidelines, nearly half had drug-resistant strains of the bacteria that were also potentially pathogenic.

The study’s authors add that this underscores the importance of surveilling meat products for pathogens, as well as vaccinating livestock against diseases. The team will be presenting their findings at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases conference in Copenhagen.

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