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Pork is currently a major part of Danish food export and is also a key dietary source of protein across the world. Industrial pork production, however, comes with high antibiotic usage in many countries, including Denmark. This has created consumer demand for meat Raised Without Antibiotics (RWA). Previous work has demonstrated that levels of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are indeed increased in antibiotically treated animals, but also suggest that these ARGs are transferred to untreated pen-mates.