date:Nov 19, 2018
Salad is popular with people who want to maintain a balanced and healthy diet. Salad varieties are often offered for sale ready-cut and film-packaged. It is known that these types of fresh produce may be contaminated with bacteria that are relevant from the point of view of hygiene. A working group led by Professor Dr. Kornelia Smalla from the Julius Khn Institute (JKI) has now shown that these bacteria may also include bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics.
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