“Statements connecting pork products and MRSA and linking the bacterial infection to the use of antibiotics in pigs are seriously misleading,” said Jill Appell, a pork producer from Altona, Ill., and president of the National Pork Producers Council. “Pigs are not responsible for the increase in MRSA cases contrary to the claims of our critics and some editorial writers.”
The Dutch food safety authority, the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, conducted a risk assessment in the Netherlands and concluded that the MRSA present in food animals such as pigs is not a food-safety threat. And a recent Institute of Food Technologists report stated that correlating the risk of antibiotic use in animals and antibiotic resistance in humans is not possible.
There is reason to believe that antibiotics in the food chain promote resistance. Who you going to listen to. Many governments who are legislating against antibiotics or an industry body
The CDC pointed out that 80 percent of life-threatening MRSA infections appear to be the result of patient-to-patient transmission in inpatient health-care facilities. Additionally, the “vast majority” of community-associated infections result from person-to-person transmission, it said. The agency also pointed out that it has conducted numerous investigations of community-associated MRSA outbreaks, and “in none of these investigations has animal exposure been identified as a risk factor for infection.”
CDC are clearly not reading the relevant research or the growing body of evidence from the vets world
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