The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #162855   Message #3908386
Posted By: Steve Shaw
27-Feb-18 - 01:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
From your 06.18 post, Iains:

"The European Food Safety Authority has found no conclusive evidence that antimicrobial chemicals used in food processing contribute to antibiotic resistance.
It is just another bleat from remainers."

There ya go - the first mention of antibiotics came from you. And the sentence makes a blatantly incorrect conflation. Your constant appeal to authority is misplaced. The antimicrobials (chlorine, for example) used in food processing are NOT antibiotics and DO NOT lead to antibiotic resistance. They can lead to antimicrobial resistance, for sure. I have a feeling that that is what the sentence really meant. But that is a very different matter. Any substance that kills bacteria is an antimicrobial. That includes antibiotics. But antibiotics are used in living animals only and are NOT used in food processing. Your quoted sentence can't mean that because it simply doesn't happen. There would be no point. It's true that traces of antibiotics may remain in meat. Yuk. But those antibiotics are NOT USED in food processing and that is NOT what your sentence is referring to. Instead of trying to come up with an even bigger insult, read that again. Look it up if you like. Try to find a reputable source. I know you find that hard, but it's the only way, honest.