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Vegetables as well as meat could spread superbugs into food chain

By Adam Vaughan

24 June 2019

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A potential source of superbugs?

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Superbugs can enter our diets if we . But a new study suggests the vegetables in our diet also have the potential to harbour antibiotic-resistant microbes.

The use of antibiotics in livestock farming for growth promotion rather than curing sick animals is considered a key way for antibiotic resistant bugs to evolve. of the 2 million superbug infections in the US each year are linked to eating meat, .

By comparison, on…

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