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APRIL 18, 2023

From Farm to Table

MDR Bacteria Found in 40% of Spanish Supermarket Meat Samples


Originally published by our sister publication Infectious Disease Special Edition

Forty percent of meat samples tested from supermarkets in Spain were positive for multidrug-resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli, according to a presentation at ECCMID 2023: the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, held in Copenhagen, Denmark (poster 1483).

It has long been known that the food chain can be a source of E. coli, but data about resistance levels in food are not widely