The National Pork Producers Council has fired back, dismissing Consumer Report magazines findings about pork as “sensationalism” and poor science.
For example, it says there are many strains of harmless Yersinia enterocolitica bacteria and only some that cause food poisoning, but the magazine did not distinguish among them when it reported that 69 per cent of the pork picked up at stores had the bacteria.
It also criticized the magazine for trying to draw a straight-line link between antibiotic-resistant bacteria in pork and humans.
