Researchers have shown the significant impact and costs of Campylobacter infections from contaminated chicken in Australia. Scientists quantified the cost of illness attributable to specific ...
Chicken meat is often contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni, a bacterium behind up to half a billion cases of human foodborne illness each year. It colonises chickens’ intestinal tract but can ...
Illustration of chicken under microscope Illustration by Keith Negley Each year, salmonella and campylobacter from chicken and other food sources infect 3.4 million Americans, send 25,500 to ...
Massey University professor of food safety and microbiology Steve Flint told Nights that chicken was riskier than other meats because of campylobacter. The bacteria lives in a chicken's ...
We bought 316 chicken breasts from major national grocery chains, big-box stores, and regional markets in 26 states, and tested them for six bacteria. They were salmonella, campylobacter ...
In its most recent round of testing it found a significant amount of the bacteria campylobacter - the most common cause of food poisoning - in 30% of chicken carcasses, 26% of chicken parts and 58 ...
A bacteria called campylobacter, found in raw chicken, causes 280,000 cases of food poisoning every year in the UK. That’s more than E.coli, listeria and salmonella added together. To kill the ...