Salmonella Liverpool and Salmonella Agona in fish meal from Denmark in Norway
Salmonella Agona in soy beanmeal from the Netherlands in Belgium
Salmonella Liverpool and Salmonella Agona in fish meal from Denmark in Norway
Salmonella Agona in soy beanmeal from the Netherlands in Belgium
Although previous studies have associated feeding dogs uncooked meat with their carriage and excretion of antibiotic resistant (ABR) Escherichia coli, this practice remains popular amongst dog owners in some countries, including the UK. Uncooked meat fed to dogs is purchased from stores selling meat primarily for human consumption, or it is a brand of commercial raw dog food (RDF), which is commonly sold frozen and thawed prior to feeding. We tested 58 packets of uncooked meat (beef, chicken, lamb and pork) purchased from large chain grocery stores (15 stores) and 15 packets of thawed, chicken-based RDF (11 brands) for the presence of ABR E. coli. All samples were purchased from the city of Bristol, UK. Among grocery store-purchased meat, chicken samples were significantly more likely to be positive for E. coli resistant to amoxicillin, spectinomycin, streptomycin, and the critically important antibiotics cefotaxime and ciprofloxacin, than other types of meat. When comparing grocery store chicken to chicken-based RDF we found no significant difference in sample-level positivity for resistant E. coli, which, for RDF was 80% (amoxicillin), 80% (spectinomycin), 87% (streptomycin), 27% (amoxicillin-clavulanate), 27% (cefotaxime) and 47% (ciprofloxacin). We conclude that despite it having been purchased frozen and thawed prior to testing according to the manufacturer’s instructions, contamination of RDF with ABR E. coli is similar to that of uncooked meat primarily intended for human consumption after cooking, and so the same strict hygiene practices are advised when handling RDF as uncooked meat. Our findings provide a rationale to explain why feeding uncooked meat or RDF to dogs in the city of Bristol is associated with them excreting E. coli resistant to critically important antibiotics.
Salmonella Senftenberg in fish meal from Denmark in Sweden
Salmonella spp. in fishmeal from Spain in Germany
Salmonella in organic soy expeller from Kazakhstan in Latvia, Sweden and Netherlands
Detection of Salmonella Typhimurium in a batch of soya cake used in the manufacture of compound feeding stuffs from France in Spain
Salmonella spp. in feed material (Kangaroo meat) for pets from Germany and Australia, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland
Exceeded parameter for Enterobacteriaceae in lamb meal from New Zealand in Belgium
Salmonella spp. feed material (sunflower cake) from Ukraine in Poland
Salmonella Senftenberg in sunflower cake (feed) from Ukraine in Poland
Salmonella Agona in soybean meal from the Netherlands in Belgium
Salmonella Agona in soybean meal from the Netherlands in Belgium
Salmonella spp. in eggshell powder from Croatia in Germany
Salmonella Anatum in compound feeds from Belgium in France
Salmonella and enterobacteria in petfood from USA in Spain
SALMONELLA IN BUFFALO FLOUR FOR PETFOOD from India in Italy
Salmonella spp. in dry petfood from Turkey in Bulgaria
Salmonella and enterobacteria in pet food from the USA in Spain.
Molds in groundnut kernels from Netherlands in Belgium