UK – The Food Standards Agency has suspended its survey of Campylobacter contamination on chickens after measures taken by retailers to combat the pathogen made survey methods obsolete.
The results of the second quarter of the survey, which were published on 25 February, showed 11 per cent of chickens tested positive for the highest level of contamination, down from 19 per cent in October to December 2014.
However, the FSA said that Campylobacter levels were still too high and the bug remains a top priority, and said it is setting itself a new target to reduce the number of human cases of Campylobacter poisoning by 100,000 a year.
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