Antimicrobial Resistance -- Assessing the Risk

Many people are talking about antimicrobial resistance these days, and there are lots of misconceptions about what role, if any, our food plays in this resistance. In our latest Chew on This podcast, Dr. Scott Hurd, associate professor of veterinary diagnostic and production animal medicine at Iowa State University, discusses quantitative risk assessments of antibiotic resistance in humans and explains all of this in laymen’s terms.

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