Dangerous Bacteria Live On Chicken Breasts

Dangerous Bacteria Live On Chicken Breasts.
Potentially poisonous bacteria was found on 97 percent of chicken breasts bought at stores across the United States and tested, according to a reborn work in Dec 2013. And about half of the chicken samples had at least one category of bacteria that was resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics, the investigators found. The tests on the 316 untrained chicken breasts also found that most had bacteria - such as enterococcus and E coli - linked to fecal contamination.

About 17 percent of the E coli were a breed that can cause urinary tract infections, according to the study, published online and in the February 2014 question of Consumer Reports. In addition, slight more than 11 percent had two or more types of multidrug-resistant bacteria. Bacteria on the chicken were more averse to antibiotics used to promote chicken growth and to prevent poultry diseases than to other types of antibiotics, the on found.

These findings show that "consumers who buy chicken breast at their local grocery stores are very plausible to get a sample that is contaminated and likely to get a bug that is multi-drug resistant. When people get psychoneurotic from resistant bacteria, treatment may be getting harder to find," said Dr Urvashi Rangan, a toxicologist and administration director of the Food Safety and Sustainability Center at Consumer Reports. The publication has been testing US chicken since 1998, and rates of contamination with salmonella have not changed much during that time, ranging from 11 percent to 16 percent of samples.