Is that chicken bugged?
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
Two-thirds of chicken on sale in the UK is contaminated with a bacterium which can cause severe food poisoning. Campylobacter, which can cause diarrhoea, cramping and abdominal pain, causes 55,000 cases of food poisoning a year in the UK. Cooking the meat properly kills the bug. The Food Standards Agency said the poultry industry should take action. Levels of Campylobacter in chicken were the same as when a similar survey was last carried out in 2001.
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- Campylobacter jejuni
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- Animals farmed for meat are the main source of Campylobacter infections
- How Campylobacter jejuni survives within cells
- Protein promotes antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter
