We have been running a year-long survey to measure the amount of campylobacter on chickens bought from shops and supermarkets. The results of the second quarter of the survey, which we published on 25 February, showed 11% of chickens tested positive for the highest level of contamination, down from 19% in October to December 2014. This progress is good news but campylobacter prevalence remains too high, which is why we have set a challenging target to reduce the number of human cases of campylobacter poisoning by 100,000 a year. Steve Wearne, Director of Policy at the FSA said: ‘Tackling campylobacter remains our number one priority. The ultimate test to show whether our campaign is working is to see whether fewer people get ill. That’s why we want to see 100,000 fewer cases of campylobacter each year from the end of March 2017. So there’s no let up for industry: we want to see continuing efforts to reduce this bug on our chickens.’ –
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