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Salmonella’s resistance to antibiotics in retail poultry increases: FDA
Story Date: 2/12/2013
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Source: Tom Johnston, MEATINGPLACE, 2/11/13
Antibiotic resistance of salmonella in retail poultry is inching upward, according to the Food and Drug Administration.
Among the findings of the 2011 Retail Meat Report of the National Antimicrobial Monitoring System (NARMS) was that some 45 percent of retail chicken samples were resistant to multiple antimicrobial classes, up about 2 percent from the 2010 report.
Multidrug resistant salmonella were found in 50 percent of ground turkey isolates in 2011, compared with almost 34 percent the year before.
Meanwhile, 27 percent of chicken isolates showed resistance to at least five drug classes, down two percent from the 2010 level.
The NARMS retail meat surveillance program monitors the prevalence and trends of antimicrobial resistance among foodborne isolates of Salmonella, Campylobacter, Enterococcus and Escherichia coli.
The program is an ongoing collaboration between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration/Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA/CVM), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a 11 state public health laboratories. The states sent bacterial isolates to FDA/CVM for serotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility testing, and genetic analysis.
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