Sentence examples for samples were contaminated with from inspiring English sources

The researchers found that 237 of the chicken samples were contaminated with the bacterium Enterococcus faecium, which was resistant to a potent combination of antibiotics.

The foundation tested the soft tissue, found that two samples were contaminated with an unidentified fungus, and destroyed them, a spokesman said.

The results of FPT revealed that up to 17.5% of the samples were contaminated with the antibiotic.

The F.D.A. has already gathered about 700 samples, mostly from recalled pet food, and found that 394 of the samples were contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical used in plastics and fertilizer.

The 2012 Stanford review found that slightly more organic chicken samples were contaminated with Campylobacter than conventional samples and that organic pork was more likely than conventional to harbor E. coli.

Just 2 percent of ground beef samples contained the bacteria, while 19 percent of ground chicken samples were contaminated with the pathogen.

Assuming that in screening campaigns only a limited number of the samples are contaminated with the analytes, the proposed approach allows the reliable identification of the contaminated specimens and the approximate estimation of their concentrations, with a 50% reduction in the total number of processed samples.

A high percentage (68.4 %) of the tested poultry, pork, shrimp, and fish samples was contaminated with ESBL-E.

Overall, a high percentage (68.4 %) of the food samples was contaminated with ESBL-producing E. coli, and samples from livestock and fishery products showed similar levels of contamination.

The results of the present study showed that none of the water samples was contaminated with organochlorine (methoxychlor and DDT) pesticides.

In some instances the complexity of these changes makes them difficult to interpret, particularly when tumour samples are contaminated with normal (stromal) tissue.