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Traditional harvesting sites, or mahinga kai, continue to be used throughout New Zealand to provide food and to share skills and cultural practices between families and generations. But our new research shows that wild foods concentrate antibiotic-resistant bacteria and could put people at risk.1
1. van Hamelsveld S, Kurenbach B, Paull DJ, et al. Indigenous food sources as vectors of Escherichia coli and antibiotic resistance. Environ Pollut 2023;334:122155.
2. World Health Organization. Antibiotic resistance. 31 July 2020.
3. Land Air Water Aotearoa. Can I swim here?
4. Pattis I, Weaver L, Burgess S, et al. Antimicrobial resistance in New Zealand – a One Health perspective. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022;11(6):778.
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