New research suggests raw frozen dog food contains bacteria that are resistant to key antibiotics. The authors were due to present their work at the now canceled 2020 European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID).
Their work suggests that raw frozen dog food contains bacteria that are capable of resisting mainstream antibiotics. This poses a risk of the transmission of these antibiotic resistant bacteria from dogs to humans, constituting an international public health risk, say the authors of the study.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “[a]ntibiotic resistance is one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.” The CDC highlight that 35,000 people die after