The Food Standards Agency has published the Year 3 results of an EU survey commissioned to assess the frequency of certain types of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) E. coli in raw UK retail pork and beef which show that these AMR levels remain consistently low, similarly to those from the previous survey on beef and pork in Year 1.
Year 3 survey of the survey was carried between January and December 2017 during which 314 beef and 310 pork samples were purchased from retail premises in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and tested for specific types of AMR E. coli.
The survey generates baseline data on certain types of AMR E. coli found on retail meat in the UK, which will subsequently inform FSA’s assessment of the risks and their next steps to reducing exposure to AMR.