Chicken -contaminated with campylobacte.

Old news. Been like that for years. Proper prep before cooking and you're fine.

I used to work in a "chicken factory" and it was clean enough. Decent H&S standards all over really, with qualified people in charge of assessing food safety.
 
Typical short sighted retarded article from the guardian. No one eats raw chicken due to bacterial load, so its cooked and when prepared properly, dissolves any toxins present and kills most of the bacteria, campylobacter sp' included.

Now, look at the alternatives shall we. To get rid of the bacteria from the meat in the first place, requires an extensive wash of the carcus in some seriously nasty chemicals, that would ruin the meat anyway, or you'd have to treat the birds with antibiotics if it was internalised instead of being infected upon butchery (as campylobacter lives on feathers, not inside the chicken 99% of the time). Either way, you are looking at serious cost, to solve an issue thats not even an issue!
 
Generally the UK is pretty good with food safety on the whole, I guess people who don't work in the industry may not understand the length some factories go to to gain a particular food certification in order to supply the major retailers.
 
I got campylobacter poisoning about 2 years ago, I was off work for nearly 2 weeks and spent most of that time running to the loo, I had no idea it was possible to crap so much :eek:

I suspect I got it from eating a duck breast which was supposed to have been cooked rare but was borderline raw lol
 
jsmoke said:
I think I read this also, maybe not just chicken, if you wash it can spray all the germs/bacteria all over the place, did I get this right?
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I read this exact article a couple of weeks ago, I think on the BBC website. It pretty much said exactly this, washing the chicken just splashes bacteria over the kitchen that then doesn't get cleaned.
 
"Wash my chicken," he murmurs.

"Bacteria splash!" I shriek, all hot and bothered.

"Then it doesn't get cleaned," he sighs and we stare at each other, both afraid to make the next move.

We are chicken.

- FIN -
 
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