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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9720

8 August 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety
EFSA publishes final opinion on food as vector of antimicrobial disease

Brussels, 07/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - In a scientific opinion published on Tuesday 5 August 2008, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) argues that the general principles applying to the prevention and control of the transmission through food of bacteria that are damaging to the human body would help prevent the transmission of antimicrobial resistance through food. The sustainable practice of improving hygiene at all levels of the food chain is one of these principles, notes the EFSA....