Animal feces in meat … 98% of which are “non-compliant”

Rheil Dandash wrote in the newspaper “Al-Akhbar” under the headline “Animal feces in meat … 98% of which is” non-identical “:” 98 percent of the beef consumed in Lebanon It does not meet the bacteriological specifications according to Lebanese and international standards, while 35 percent One of the bacteria “Escherichia coli”, found in meat, is resistant to many antibiotics. This was the most surprising conclusion of a study published by MDPI based on 50 samples of raw ground meat collected from 50 butchers and consumer cooperatives in Beirut during the spring and summer of 2018.

While the Lebanese Standards Institution (LIBNOR) set the permissible limit for colonic feces in raw ground meat at 100 CFU (number of colony units) per gram, the results of the study were disastrous and exceeded the specified standards terribly, as the Coliform fecal index ranged according to the samples between CFU / g 6.3 x 104 and CFU / g 1.62 x 107.
While Lipnor did not specify acceptable levels of e colie in ground meat, the acceptable level in the United States, for example, is 500 CFU / g. But in Lebanon, according to the study, the rate of these bacteria ranged between 4.5 × 103 and 3.48 × 106 CFU / g, exceeding acceptable limits thousands of times. The study revealed what is most dangerous, and that is that these bacteria are resistant to many antibiotics. He attributed this to Lebanon’s over-reliance on antibiotic use in farms and food industries, or high reliance on them in importing countries, noting that Lebanon imports most of its livestock from India and Brazil. And when animals, especially chickens and cows, are given antibiotics in large quantities and a person consumes them in large quantities, an internal immunity to the antibiotic is produced and, therefore, it is no longer valid to kill the bacteria ”. To read the full article, press Here.