Report: Drug-Resistant Salmonella Infections Rise in the US

Campylobacter is America’s biggest cause of foodborne illness, just ahead of salmonella. Both are potentially fatal. Between 2015 and 2020, US companies sold tens of thousands of meat products contaminated with campylobacter and salmonella, according to government sampling records obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Although the USDA deems a certain level of salmonella and campylobacter within poultry acceptable, 12 major US poultry companies have exceeded USDA standards for acceptable levels of salmonella multiple times since 2018, when the government began reporting contamination rates at individual plants, according to the department’s records. See the full report from VICE here.