Three-quarters of supermarket fresh chickens contaminated with campylobacter

摘要

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the final set of results from its year-long survey of campylobacter on fresh chickens, revealing that 73 per cent of chickens tested positive for the presence of campylobacter, with 19 per cent of chickens testing positive for campylobacter within the highest band of contamination. Campylobacter is a food bug mainly found on raw poultry and is the biggest cause of food poisoning in the UK. The results for the full year show: 1. 19 per cent of chickens tested positive for campylobacter within the highest band of contamination; 2. 73 per cent of chickens tested positive for the presence of campylobacter; 3. 0.1 per cent (five samples) of packaging tested positive at the highest band of contamination; and 4. 7 per cent of packaging tested positive for the presence of campylobacter.