Published yesterday by the European Union, but too long to give here in full.
This is
not going to please Britain’s government veterinarians. They can’t keep faking
it up with the world watching.
The world will be coming to investigate the geniuses that
have kept Britain’s pigs free of MRSA, especially MRSA st398, for so many years, when virtually
everyone else has admitted finding it in their pigs, pork, farmers and veterinarians.
They are going to want to know how British science achieved this apparent miracle, and use that information to benefit the world.
Before getting too excited about a scientific breakthrough I suggest
the EU starts by testing the veterinarians, then the pigs and the pork.
How can we tell they are being economical with the truth?
One way is very simple, with no science required.
If the pigs really were clear of MRSA, Britain's corrupt agricultural ministry, once MAFF, now DEFRA, would have been yelling it from the rooftops as a triumph of British veterinary science and collecting knighthoods and honours by the bucketful.
Other than giving a nil return following the last inadequate testing ordered by the EU, the silence is deafening.
Just a header and a selected quote:
Technical specifications on the harmonised
monitoring and reporting of antimicrobial resistance in
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in food-producing
animals and food
EFSA Journal 2012;10(10):2897 [56
pp.]. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2012.2897
European Food Safety
AuthorityAcknowledgment Contact 
Type: Scientific Report of EFSAOn request from: European
Commission, Health and Consumers Directorate-GeneralQuestion number: EFSA-Q-2012-00555Approved: 24
September 2012Published: 05 October 2012Affiliation: European
Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Parma Italy
“Pigs, in
particular, have been acknowledged as an important source of colonisation with
livestock-associated MRSA in pig farmers, veterinarians, and their families,
through direct or indirect contact with pigs. In order to increase awareness
and to assess the occurrence of MRSA in pig primary production across the EU,
an EU-wide baseline survey was performed in 2008 to obtain comparable preliminary
data on the occurrence and diversity of MRSA in pig primary production in all
Member States through a harmonised sampling scheme. MRSA has since been
detected in cattle, chickens, horses, pigs, rabbits, seals, cats, dogs and
birds. An assessment of the public health significance of MRSA in animals and
food was issued by the European Food Safety Authority in 2009.”
