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Chicken shock at Aldi and Lidl: Study reveals "alarming results" - experts warn

2020-10-29T10:21:05.332Z


In the case of cheap chickens from Aldi and Lidl, an increased risk of resistant germs was confirmed. A study reveals the "alarming results."


In the case of cheap chickens from Aldi and Lidl, an increased risk of resistant germs was confirmed.

A study reveals the "alarming results."

  • Experts find

    multi-resistant pathogens (MRE)

    in

    cheap chicken

    from Lidl and Aldi.

  • Also

    reserve antibiotics

    are of the

    resistances

    involved.

  • Experts are sounding the

    alarm

    about the study results

    .

Munich -

Resistant germs

are not only a problem in hospitals and a

health risk

, but also in

animal husbandry

.

A study has now examined chicken meat from the three largest EU poultry farms.

The chickens were bought from the factory as well as from

Lidl

and

Aldi

.

Supermarket chicken from Aldi and Lidl under the microscope - cheap meat has the largest market share

The analysis of the

supermarket meat

was carried out using 165 samples, which means that the results cannot be classified as representative.

However, the initiators of the study, Germanwatch and doctors against factory farming, did not expect or strive for this.

"Rather, they wanted to refer again to the system of

industrial animal husbandry

in

poultry production

in Europe and its possible consequences," Welt summarizes the goals of the initiators.

The clients of the investigation continue to say that they "deliberately only bought cheap meat because that has the largest market share."

Every second chicken from the discounter is contaminated with resistant germs https://t.co/IahPHjN1WL pic.twitter.com/NUw9mM3ENJ

- WORLD (@world) October 28, 2020

“Alarming results” in a study on cheap chicken by Lidl and Aldi

The first shocking result of the

study

from the National Reference Center for Gram-negative Hospital Pathogens at the

Ruhr University Bochum

: Every second sample of the cheap chickens is contaminated with antibiotic-resistant germs.

If you

buy

your chicken from

Lidl

or

Aldi

, you have a 50-50 chance of bringing home a product that is hazardous to health.

For Reinhild Benning, an

agricultural expert

from Germanwatch, the

second result of the study is more

serious:

Resistance

to

reserve antibiotics was also found

in more than every third chicken.

Reserve antibiotics are used in medical treatment when conventional drugs are not working.

“These are alarming results,” said Benning.

Video: Quarks names three rules against multi-resistant germs

They were discovered in cheap chickens from Aldi and Lidl - but what are resistant germs?

In order to understand what

resistant germs

are, one has to deal with the subject of

antibiotics

.

Antibiotics are drugs that are given when the human body needs help fighting a bacterial infection.

These antibiotics are made from microorganisms (including fungi).

However, bacteria have a natural protection against these "foreign organisms", a so-called

resistance

.

Usually this affects not just one antibiotic, but several.

This means that these bacteria are also called

multi-resistant pathogens (MRE)

.

Only the targeted and appropriate use of medication can help to contain the same.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) provides information on this.

Cheap meat at discounters like Lidl and Aldi - Too much antibiotics in industrial animal husbandry?

It is precisely through the

treatment of animals

with antibiotics, mostly in industrial animal husbandry, that the

multi-resistant pathogens can

also spread among people.

"Veterinarians in the EU use more antibiotics for animals than human medicine for sick people," explains Reinhild Benning.

However, supermarkets and discounters such as

Lidl

or

Aldi

often rely on cheap chicken.

This has repeatedly caused

public

discussions

in

recent years

: Experts found the worrying germs in discount meat as early as the end of 2019.

(jey)

Source: merkur

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