The federal government has made a shocking discovery in large samples 88 percent of the purchased at discount stores turkey meat samples were contaminated with antibiotic-resistant germs. This poses a significant risk to consumers.
In 88 percent of the purchased at discount stores turkey meat samples of the Association for the Environment and Conservation to Germany (BUND) antibiotic-resistant germs found. Laboratory tests of meat samples from Aldi, Lidl, Netto, Penny and Real, bought in or around Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Hanover, Göttingen, Munich, Nuremberg, Frankfurt, Mannheim, Cologne and Stuttgart, had both MRSA germs than also ESBL-producing bacteria after. A total of nearly 60 samples were tested for antibiotic-resistant germs nationwide.
About 90 percent of the turkeys get antibiotics during fattening. This favors the formation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in industrial turkey farming – as in other species of animals in factory farms. With the flesh the antimicrobial get up in the kitchens of the consumers. This carries the risk of transmission to humans and, in the case of infection is a risk that antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective.
“characters for antibiotic abuse in Poultry Production”
In particular, in susceptible people can ESBL-producing intestinal bacteria (Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase) treatment extremely difficult with antibiotics, MRSA bacteria (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in turn can cause serious infections directly. In Germany estimates die of the German Society for Hospital Hygiene According per year up to 40,000 people, because antibiotics are not effective.
Hubert Weiger, federal-Chairman: “Around nine out of ten turkey meat samples from German discounters are according to our tests loaded with antibiotic-resistant germs This is a clear sign of continued antibiotic abuse in the broiler This is.. not only a part to essential drugs lose their life-saving effect. The shocking extent of contamination of food with these risk germination is above all a clear warning of the risks and collateral damage of industrial farming. “
” changes in the animal protection law necessary “
The production of cheap meat always mean that a too high number of animals would be kept on too little space, and it was only possible using large amounts of antibiotics, the Confederation chairman. “Federal Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt must. He must act up in factory farms binding plans to reduce the use of antibiotics and the prohibition of reserve antibiotics,” Weigert said.
The federal government’s agricultural expert Reinhild Benning pointed out that none of the turkey meat supplier was able to offer goods which was consistently not burdened with antibiotic resistance. “All the slaughterhouse corporations and cutting plants have provided we tested turkey meat to the discounters, are being established by the agro-food industry quality assurance system QS in. And yet the meat is heavily overloaded with antibiotic-resistant germs. This shows that changes in welfare and are necessary in the pharmaceutical legislation to remedy the weaknesses of this so-called quality assurance system, “Benning said.
” We need an amendment to the Medicines Act “
So contributed 20 of the 21 surveyed turkey meat samples the largest poultry company – the PHW Group – come, antibiotic-resistant germs. Of 21 meat samples of the company Heidemark also one of the largest turkey producer, 19 were charged. Five of the six samples tested by Sprehe, another major poultry producer in Germany, had antibiotic-resistant germs. Must be
Forbidden focused on the use of in human medicine often essential for survival reserve antibiotics. Benning: “We need an amendment to the Medicines Act, the reserve antibiotics banned immediately from factory farms In the Netherlands, Denmark and France, these agents are already largely disappeared in industrial animal husbandry, but seem in Germany the interests of the meat industry on the health of the population. . are “
Federation: dumping of meat should be banned
Benning also called for changes in the law for vets:” Around 80 percent of all antibiotics used in livestock sold by only five percent of veterinary practices who get lucrative discounts on bulk purchases for giant stables. A modified drug law must stop this practice and to protect human health enforce again. ” Are
This used in the future as few antibiotics to livestock farmers targeted advice and support to improve the conditions of their animals and the marketing alternatively produced food should also receive. Dumping prices below production costs for cheap meat should be banned.
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