Supermarket chain Asda has reported the worst Campylobacter in chicken findings of the top nine retailers in the United Kingdom in the latest set of testing results.

In the third quarter of 2020, 7.7 percent of chickens tested positive for the highest level of contamination.

It is the second time in three quarters that Asda has recorded levels above the Food Standards Agency (FSA) threshold of 7 percent of birds with more than 1,000 colony forming units per gram (CFU/g) of Campylobacter.

 

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