London: In an alarming find, researchers have discovered multi drug-resistant E. coli in 40 per cent of supermarket meat samples.
The team analysed 100 meat products (25 each of chicken, turkey, beef and pork) chosen at random from supermarkets in Oviedo, Spain.
The majority (73 per cent) of the meat products contained levels of E. coli that were within food safety limits.
Despite this, almost half contained multi drug-resistant and/or potentially pathogenic E. coli.
The percentage of positive samples for E. coli per meat type was 68 per cent turkey, 56 per cent chicken, 16 per cent beef and 12 per cent pork.
Multi drug-resistant bacteria can spread from animals to humans through the food chain but, due to commercial sensitivities, data on levels of antibiotic-resistant bugs in food is not made widely available.
“Farm-to-fork interventions must be a priority to protect the consumer. For example, implementation of surveillance lab methods to allow further study of high-risk bacteria (in farm animals and meat) and their evolution due to the latest EU restriction programmes on antibiotic use in veterinary medicine,” said Dr Azucena Mora Gutierrez of the University of Santiago de Compostela-Lugo, Lugo, Spain.
The study was set to be presented at European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2023) in Copenhagen, from April 15-18.
Antibiotic resistance is reaching dangerously high levels around the world.
Drug-resistant infections kill an estimated 700,000 people a year globally and the figure is projected to rise to 10 million by 2050 if no action is taken, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
The researchers called for regular assessment of levels of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in meat products.
“Strategies at farm level, such as vaccines, to reduce the presence of specific multi drug-resistant and pathogenic bacteria in food-producing animals, would reduce the meat carriage and consumer risk, said Dr Mora Gutierrez.
There’s a pathetic but satisfying thing that occurs when you stop using an online service you’re used to frequenting. This was Facebook a few years ago, when plummeting engagement whipped the social media platform into a frenzy of desperate invitations and prompts. It’s Fresh Direct when you fill your basket with groceries and – I can’t recommend this enough, if you’re looking for the tiny high that comes from withholding – don’t check out, triggering a bunch of wheedling automated messages, begging you to come back.
This week, in my life, it’s Uber Eats. For the past couple of years I’ve ordered from them once a week and now I’ve stopped, causing the food delivery service to issue a flurry of semi-hysterical special offers. Each spam text, each begging notification, reminds me of the money I’m saving. If you like rejecting things (I like rejecting things) then this exercise will thrill you: rejection without the human cost of hurting someone’s feelings.
The bigger picture, obviously, is a consumer trend away from the convenience-related services that surged during the pandemic. Companies that boomed and attracted millions in investment are starting to wither as our online habits change. In the US, instant delivery startups such as Buyk and Jokr, which briefly boomed in 2021, are declaring bankruptcy or pulling out of the US market. The meal-kit company Blue Apron has seen its share price plunge as food costs have risen and consumer interest in pricey convenience products has dwindled. The same goes for Stitch Fix, a service for clothing delivery that briefly boomed during the pandemic. And all of this in the context of mass lay-offs in tech at a time when those companies, seemingly, have nowhere left to expand.
Supermarket shopping: ‘The joy, withheld during those two years of disruption, of going to a place and doing a thing.’ Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
Though it may be bad for the economy, from the perspective of an individual trying to have a life that entails leaving the house, this trend is perhaps an encouraging sign. The same encouragement might be taken from the slowdown at Netflix; many of us are capped out after too many hours of watching TV. I’m not exactly out there every morning taking invigorating walks, but I am reading again, feeling more inclined to work rather than pass out on the sofa, and to seek out real-world rather than online experience. If habits inculcated during the pandemic were supposed to augur the future, as Derek Thompson wrote in the Atlantic last month, “the post-pandemic economy has been much weirder than most people anticipated”.
For me, the weirdest of these impulses has been a desire to return to supermarket shopping. This is partly money-related; the downturn in fast-food delivery earnings is clearly linked to pinched household incomes. It’s also a health thing; many of us are still trying to reverse the damage done by all the junk food we ate during lockdown.
But of all the habits adopted in the past couple of years, it seemed as if grocery delivery might be the obvious keeper. Post-pandemic, maybe no one wants a hulking great Peloton in their living room and the appeal of the third place – be it the gym or Starbucks – is enjoying an obvious bounce-back. But supermarket shopping, at least in New York where I live, has rarely been a pleasure. It has always been time-consuming, stressful and over-crowded, with in-store prices not much lower than what you pay for delivery. And yet, every Monday, I feel compelled to stand in line at Trader Joe’s, and stagger home carrying six bags of shopping.
All I can put this desire down to is a combination of the small satisfaction that comes from making even minor economies in the present climate; and something less tangible to do with the joy, withheld during those two years of disruption, of going to a place and doing a thing. The expense of energy has itself become a virtue. Its inverse – ordering in; falling back on convenience and paying for it – seems not only to belong to a sadder period but, at this point, when one can go out, using one’s actual body, to feel like a moral failing. If it’s a hair shirt, perhaps it feels good simply in contrast to our pandemic wardrobe. Meanwhile, I suspect watching Uber Eats freak out will never get old.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )
Hyderabad: On a gleeful Saturday morning scores of people can be seen thronging a recently inaugurated supermarket even before doors open.
Spread around 26,000 sqft area, the Red Rose Mart located in Falaknuma was launched by Home minister Mohammed Mahmood Ali and animal husbandry minister T Srinivas Yadav on January 14.
The video, of a large number of Hyderabadis, gathered outside the supermarket as the doors open, surfaced and has been doing rounds on social media.
The shop consists of goods like fast-moving consumer products, a coffee shop, a meat store, a vegetable, and fruit corner, a sweet meat store, cosmetics, imitation jewellery, and a pharmacy.
The mart also holds daily lucky draws for shoppers who shop for above Rs 1000. A bumper draw post 45 days is also being organised where the winner will take away a Toyota Glanza vehicle along with a TV, washing machine and other accessories.
Red Rose Group owners Zia ur Rahman and Syed Zeeshanuddin came up with the idea of the ‘Red Rose Mart,’ a supermarket in the city that has thrilled the citizens to rush to the store and shop, in the latest ambience of a grocery store.
Zia ur Rahman, said, “This is just the beginning, we are coming up with new stores in the city soon.”
“Under one roof you will get a lot of things at reasonable rates with good quality products. Apart from the supermarket concept we have tied up with Apollo Pharmacy followed by Barfi Sweet House and a coffee shop outside the supermarket”, he said.
The Red Rose Group of Industries has amassed a tremendous amount of trust and esteem. Red Rose succeeds in several industries with prosperous endeavours, from real estate and FMCG to hotels and medical equipment. By joining the retail industry, it hopes to diversify its line of work and offer a new kind of service to its clientele.
The Red Rose Group of Industries is prepared for a sustained and prosperous existence in the retail sector. In order to upend the successful industry, it plans to open more than 100 new locations over the next ten years.
