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Sustainable and safer beef:Shifting consumer demand
Steps to Sustainable LivestockBristol, EnglandJanuary 2016Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D.
Slide2Consumer Reports
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themselves
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Slide3Food Safety
& Sustainability Center@ConsumerReports
Conduct a variety of food safety and sustainability tests (some very large)
w
ith a science and data driven approach.
Combine with survey findings, label ratings, risk assessment, dataset analysis and topical policy issues
Educate
about
a
cute and chronic safety risks and health of production systems (workers, animals, environment)
Compare products, production systems
and assess root causes of problems
Push for marketplace change and shift consumer demand to sustainable choices
Slide4Ground beef test: Overview
Purchased 300 samples raw, ground beef, 181 conventional samples, 119 more sustainable (all no abs +/- organic +/- grassfed) at retail, in 26 US States, over 3 weeks
Segmented sampling across production types
Measured prevalence of live
salmonella, enterococcus, clostridium perfringens, e.coli, and staphylococcus aureusMeasured antibiotic resistance rates to several classes of human antibioticsFull scientific report on conventional and sustainable production practices, comparative label ratings and full test results:http://www.consumerreports.org/content/dam/cro/magazine-articles/2015/October/Consumer%20Reports%20Food%20%26%20Sustainability%20Center%20Beef%20Report_8-15.pdf
Slide5Ground Beef: Countries of Origin
Slide6Ground beef test sampling by
production claims
Slide7Ground beef
bacteria prevalence
Slide8Ground beef
antibiotic resistance rates
Slide9Proportion of samples with multidrug
resistant bacteria (>3 or more antibiotic classes)
Slide10Label Ratings & Criteria
Slide11Source:
Consumer Reports® National Research Center 2014
Slide12THANK YOU
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reenerchoices.org
@ConsumerReports@UrvashiRangan
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