{"id":68507,"date":"2026-03-03T10:10:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/?p=68507"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:19:34","slug":"why-burgers-should-not-be-eaten-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/why-burgers-should-not-be-eaten-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Burgers Should Not Be Eaten Rare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Excerpt from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ilsalvagente.it\/2026\/02\/20\/batteri-resistenti-agli-antibiotici-negli-alimenti-lallerta-delle-authority-europee\/\"><em>Il Salvagente<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aifa.gov.it\/documents\/20142\/2694929\/Comunicato_AIFA_11-2025.pdf\">data released by\u00a0Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco\u00a0(AIFA)<\/a>, antibiotic resistance is responsible for 12,000 deaths per year in Italy. Drug resistance is increasing in most regions for several major microorganisms, including\u00a0<em>Escherichia coli<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The origins of these changes, which make bacteria more resilient to antibiotics, are well known: excessive use of antibiotics\u2014particularly in pediatric care\u2014rising consumption in hospital settings, and sustained pressure within livestock farming. In the latter, the widespread use of preventive prophylaxis (the administration of medicines even to healthy animals) has, over the years, \u201cselected\u201d microorganisms capable of overcoming pharmacological defenses\u2014and potentially ending up in the meat we consume.<\/p>\n<p>The most serious resistance patterns identified by\u00a0<em>Il Salvagente<\/em>\u00a0concern the presence of beta-glucuronidase-positive\u00a0<em>Escherichia coli<\/em>\u00a0and staphylococci in certain burgers, capable of surviving modern and widely used antibiotics such as cephalosporins, a class of beta-lactam antibiotics.<\/p>\n<p>In the Terre d\u2019Italia burger sold by\u00a0Carrefour, staphylococci were detected that proved resistant to five antibiotics, including cephalosporins and macrolides. A similar situation was found in the Chianina burger sold by\u00a0Lidl: the staphylococci identified were resistant to four types of antibiotics (one cephalosporin and three macrolides), while the\u00a0<em>Escherichia coli<\/em>\u00a0strain detected showed resistance to two drugs in antibiogram testing. Resistance among staphylococci to certain macrolides was also found in meatballs sold by\u00a0Eurospin\u00a0and by Gram.<\/p>\n<p>How can consumers protect themselves? By thoroughly cooking meat, including its interior. Although many producers advise cooking burgers thoroughly, this type of meat is often eaten rare. In light of these findings, that practice must be seriously reconsidered.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, close attention must be paid to developments in the meat industry, where greater clarity and transparency toward the public would be welcome. On this point, see also the ongoing Bervini scandal (which involved the\u00a0AIA\u00a0group).[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=&#8221;68508&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Excerpt from\u00a0Il Salvagente According to the latest data released by\u00a0Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco\u00a0(AIFA), antibiotic resistance is responsible for 12,000 deaths per year in Italy. Drug resistance is increasing in most regions for several major microorganisms, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-68507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-health","tag-animal-welfare"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68522,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68507\/revisions\/68522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}