Most chickens have killer bug
TWO out of every three shop-bought chickens are contaminated with a potentially lethal bug, the Food Standards Agency has found.
It has asked supermarkets to do more to eradicate campylobacter, a bacteria linked with 440,000 food poison cases and 80 deaths in 2008.
FSA chief executive Tim Smith has written to bosses of Asda, Sainsbury’s, the Co-op, Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Waitrose and Morrisons asking them to encourage suppliers to make improvements.
Campylobacter is the UK’s most common cause of food poisoning. The FSA had hoped to reduce rates in shop-bought chicken to 35 per cent by this year.