Análisis de Consumer Reports: las bacterias en el pavo criado sin antibióticos mostraron mucha menos resistencia a los antibióticos que las bacterias en los pavos convencionales.

US – The National Turkey Federation (NTF) strongly disputes the misleading findings of a Consumer Reports article about ground turkey, which makes a number of alarming claims based on a sample of ground turkey products.

Consumer Reports has carried out tests on ground turkey meat, finding that bacteria on turkey raised without antibiotics had significantly less antibiotic resistance than bacteria on conventional turkey. Ninety per cent of samples had one or more of the five bacteria tested

The June Edition of Consumer Reports Magazine features a piece on antibiotics in the raising of turkeys, and recommends Certified Humane® turkey as an alternative to animals given feed containing antibiotics.

“Our findings strongly suggest that there is a direct relationship between the routine use of antibiotics in animal production and increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria on ground turkey. It’s very concerning that antibiotics fed to turkeys are creating resistance to antibiotics used in human medicine,” said Dr. Urvashi Rangan, Director of the Food Safety and Sustainability Group at Consumer Reports…Consider other labels, such as “Animal Welfare Approved” and “Certified Humane®,” which mean that antibiotics were restricted to sick animals.

Bacteria on Turkey Raised Without Antibiotics Showed Significantly Less Antibiotic Resistance than Bacteria on Conventional Turkey