“…So-called organic fertilizers produced from plant material, animal manure, and litter from agricultural by-products or recovered from wastewaters are a source of ARGs, resistant bacteria, and pathogens in food that reaches consumers (7,28,53,145). Resistant bacteria have been found on fresh fruits or within plant tissues, where, hidden as endophytes, they spread in fresh vegetables (72,93). The presence of ARGs and resistant bacteria in agricultural products highlights the need to control these potential sources of dispersal into the environment and contamination of food products that ultimately reach and endanger consumer health.…”