Foods and Antibiotic Resistance: Not All Resistance Is Created Equal

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Antibiotic resistance used to be a concern that was associated exclusively with hospitals. However, the focus of public health and policy efforts have now expanded beyond the clinic to include concerns about the role of agricultural antibiotic use on human health, and the general role that foods have in transmitting antibiotic resistance to consumers. Even though the overall burden of clinical resistance is predominantly impacted by antibiotic use in human medicine, the severity of the antibiotic resistance problem means that all potential sources of resistance need to be evaluated, including food. In addition to the biological reasons for adding antibiotic resistance to your food safety vocabulary, this issue has been receiving a significant amount of national and international political and regulatory attention.

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