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What's lurking in the meat you're buying for your family? Plenty of bacteria, according to a new study, published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Almost half of all the beef, chicken, pork, and turkey bought in five U.S. cities and sampled by researchers, was found to contain drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, reports CBS News.
"Staph" bacteria is nothing to fool around with-it can cause everything from a rash to life-threatening sepsis and endocarditis. And because we've consumed so many antibiotics, the staph bacteria isn't easily controllable by drugs. In fact, in the tests done by study researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute, 47 percent of the meat contained bacteria resistant to three types of antibiotics.
Sure, you can kill "staph" by cooking the meat, but one contaminated cutting board is all it takes to set the bacteria in motion for many cooks. How many ways can we say it's time to give up the steak tartare?
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4-15-2011 @12:30PM chris said... It's commonly found on human skin and 20% of people are long term carriers. Scare tactics much?
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4-15-2011 @3:04PM tony said... Consultation from a micro-biologist for this article would have been helpful.
11-29-2011 @5:34PM Kim Saunders said... Not to minimize the threat but if it is in half the meat around and is so dangerous and resistant to antibiotics why aren't half or more of the people sick with the disease. There is much cooking of rare meat and even if you are very thorough you will have some bacteria in your kitchen. A healthy imune system beats antibiotics any day. Eat Broccoli, Cauliflower , Kale and Walnuts.
4-15-2011 @9:22PM notimeflat said... Anyone who thinks this is a scare tactic is a moron.
In the summer of 2009, I came very, very close to dying from a staph infection that began to grow on a scrape on my knee out at sea. 4 weeks in the hospital most of which was quarantine. 8 weeks of home IV therapy. 2 more months of oral antibiotics. My body was not free of the bacterium for nearly 9 months.
Again, morons.
4-15-2011 @9:26PM B said... Why don't you read the link to the article from CBS news (i.e. the source)? The study came from Dr. Lance Price- a senior investigator at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, AZ. So there is a microbiologist, a very good one.
Also- there is 20% staph.. but 20% MULTIDRUG resistant staph? Did you know that staph infections used to kill people 80% of the time before antibiotics? what happens when they are resistant?
4-15-2011 @9:56PM chris said... Just because it's there doesn't mean you're going to get sick from it...
Sure, some people get sick or get staph infections, but it's not an absolute for everyone. This article is making it out to sound like you'll get sick every other time you cook chicken.
4-17-2011 @9:33AM LOMAX said... It doesn't sound like Notimeflat got his infection from a beef steak.
4-17-2011 @2:09PM Al Schrader said... Bathing with anti-odor, anti-bacterial soap solves this...Al-
4-17-2011 @4:33PM harold said... You cant rely on anything "SLASH FOOD" writers, write.
4-15-2011 @3:57PM Michael FitzPatrick said... Chris ... if you are going to make such spurious claims, quote your source.
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4-15-2011 @4:55PM Brady said... Michael...information on Staph Aureus is readily available at cdc.gov. You will find that there is nothing spurious about Chris's claims. It is information that one learns in a very basic Biochemistry course.
4-17-2011 @2:10PM Al Schrader said... The meat featured in the picture is pork, not beef as shown in the headline...Al-
4-15-2011 @4:14PM Dave said... I wonder what the result would be if such tests were performed on organic pastured meats. Bad inputs gives you bad output, what a surprise. Of course, rather than clean up their act I am sure the producers will lobby for radiation sterilization or some other horrific method.
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4-16-2011 @9:59AM Amity said... Anything to keep that profit margin as high as possible. Healthy, responsibly raised animals produce healthy food. Unfortunately big corporations won't make as much of a profit raising their animals in a responsible manner.
4-15-2011 @5:45PM Kclc said... Staph is common and not a problem for most healthy people. Drug resistant staph kills the old, the already-ill and the very young. The meat we eat get alot of antibiotics in their diet when alive, which means that these animals have had all the weaker bacteria killed in their bodies and only the stronger bacteria left. Don't eat at restaurants, or bbq gatherings where you know that they dont change the tongs after cooking the meat, which reinfects the food with the stronger bacteria.
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4-15-2011 @5:50PM Kclc said... Forgot to add that comparing drug resistant staph and regular staph are are as different as comparing a stink bomb to an a-bomb
4-22-2011 @12:39AM Luke Thomas said... Staph is ordinary normal flora on all animal's skin (including yours). MRSA IS NOT. MRSA wounds do NOT heal.
4-15-2011 @5:55PM devinearcher said... What is interesting is that it was predicted and scientifically backed up that this would happen and yet little was done towards preventing drug resistant bacteria in agriculture.
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4-17-2011 @11:30AM Dennis said... Grass fed meat. Period. or truly wild game. Not farm raised venison, which is nothing more than another version of corn fed beef.
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4-15-2011 @8:22PM JayDMD said... Taking this article at face value is the equivalent of getting your world news from watching Jersey Shore. Even a Freshman at junior college should be raising their eyebrows at this one
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