Campylobacter survey analysis report published (Food Standards Agency)

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has today published the final report of its year-long survey of Campylobacter levels on UK fresh shop-bought chickens.

The report is an analysis of the data from the survey carried out by the FSA between February 2014 and March 2015, which showed the levels of Campylobacter found on fresh, whole chickens sold in the UK.

The results for the full year, as previously published, showed:

• 19% of chickens tested positive for Campylobacter within the highest band of contamination*
• 73% of chickens tested positive for the presence of Campylobacter
• 0.1% (five samples) of packaging tested positive at the highest band of contamination.
• 7% of packaging tested positive for the presence of Campylobacter.

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