SCOTLAND’S public sector food body has emphasised the need for good hygiene and cooking practices, following concerns over a potentially fatal “superbug” found in some British supermarket pork.
New tests shared with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and published in the Guardian suggest that the enterococci superbug, which shows resistance to a “last resort” antibiotic used to treat serious illness in humans, in more widespread in UK meat that previously suspected, with the tests finding it in 13 out of 103 samples.
