DRUG RESISTANT MRSA FOUND IN YOUR MEAT !

not my meat, this is why eating locally is beneficial.

glad im veggie.. this is pathetic

100% of those who works in a hospital has MRSA this just more BS FEAR INC reporting . Meat has Staph SO WHAT 100% of the human race has it too.. again this BS FEAR INC reporting Please delete and move on....

My Mom contracted MRSA in the hospital last February.
When I expressed concern to her doctor that I would be her primary care giver when she got home and asked how I could avoid catching it, he told me:
50% OF THE POPULATION HAS MRSA.
It lives in our noses.
It is only when our immune system gets compromised that it emerges to do harm.
Once again the key to health is maintaining a healthy immune system (which recent studies show requires 9 hours of sleep per night).
We are exposed to hundreds of thousands of pathogens every day. It is only when our immunity gets low from stress, bad diet and lack of sleep that things like MRSA pose a threat.

Already can hear the GOP spin meisters: Continued cuts to food stamps is really a GOP health and safety policy designed to protect you--no food stamps, no staph.

And who cut, and keeps advocating cuts, to the FDA?

Wow, radiation and carcinogens in our veggies and MRSA in our meats. Thanks Bush for neutralizing the agencies that keep us safe.

so cooking the meat doesn't kill the stuff?

There’s all sorts of trash in our food. I just went to the market two days ago to get tomatoes and on the labeling it said that the tomatoes were coated in petroleum.

The issue with the meat goes way back before GWBush, and is related to the practice in the meat industry of using antibiotics on the animals which will become our food.

They need to use antibiotics because the animals are raised in such inhumane conditions, in such densely-concentrated populations, that infections can spread like wildfire in a herd or flock.

My mother died from this... it is not JOKE!

WHAT media DON"T WANT you too know will kill you quick~ :('

The scientists followed standard testing protocols and found MRSA in three different samples; all were ground pork. The positive samples were from purchases made in Oregon, California and Idaho -- three of the four states where we tested. "The interesting situation here," said Samadpour, "is that now we have something that you would worry about in terms of wound infections in foods." Like most other bacteria, MRSA will die if it's thoroughly cooked. But unlike E. coli or salmonella, MRSA causes skin infections, so just touching raw pork that has the bacteria could be a problem, according to both Samadpour and Goldburg. "So that raises the possibility," says Goldburg, "that simply handling meat could potentially give you a very nasty infection." Canada and several European countries already test pork in grocery stores for MRSA. We contacted the USDA and were told they have no plans for any testing. "It really disturbs me," said Boutte. "We have enough things out there that we can catch, we don't need any help from other sources, and if the government is not going to be able to step up and help us out - what's the point?" The National Pork Board just began testing pork in retail markets. Their study won't be finished for another six months, but their preliminary results are similar to ours: about a three percent positive rate for MRSA. The Pork Board said MRSA is a priority, but they don't know if it's a risk to you.

MRSA and the Food Chain
But now, with a new administration and Congress seated, Kennedy's bill has a House version, support from 300 organizations including the American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and American College of Preventive Medicine--and a good chance of passage. The Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA) sponsored in the House by Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY)--who has degrees in both microbiology and public health--would phase out non-therapeutic use of "medically important antibiotics" in livestock and strengthen standards for approval of new livestock ABs while still allowing their use in sick animals. Eighty-four percent of grower-finisher swine farms, 83 percent of cattle feedlots, and 84 percent of sheep farms currently use ABs non-therapeutically says the bill. Seventy percent of ABs are fed to livestock not people in the US.

We investigated the prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in 120 retail meats from 30 grocery stores in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. S. aureus was recovered from 45.6% of pork and 20% of beef, whereas MRSA was isolated from six meats (5 pork and 1 beef). The MRSA isolates were of two strain types (clones), one harboring Panton-Valentine leucocidin and belonging to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis type USA300, and the other one belonging to USA100.