There’s a good chance your grocer’s meats are tainted with bacterial germs that are relatively invulnerable to antibiotics, a trio of new studies finds. As a result, anyone sickened by these microbes could find the arsenal of drugs available to fight their infection small to nonexistent.
Thorough cooking makes meats safe, but contamination may occur in the kitchen.
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