Nationwide study finds US meat and poultry is widely contaminated

Friday, April 15, 2011 - 05:00 in Health & Medicine

Drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, a bacteria linked to a wide range of human diseases, are present in meat and poultry from U.S. grocery stores at unexpectedly high rates, according to a nationwide study by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).

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