Yes, there are reasonable steps it appears they aren't being adhered to. This is not the first time recently the meat industry has caused serious questions to be asked.
Yes they are. Campylobacter on chickens is nothing new. What this article has essentially done (using a rubbish analogy) is found a knife and gone 'ooooh look this is pointy and sharp and can hurt someone.' Yes it is sharp and pointy... now put it back in the drawer with the rest of the cutlery that is used every day... and there's a knife block sitting on the counter too you should watch out for.
Let's take for example of the usual favourite e.coli 0157 it is not actually everywhere really is it. It is concentrated in very specific locations after very specific events!
Yes it is found commonly in the gut of farm animals. Awareness is a good thing don't get me wrong but education via the news and demestos is unreliable.
Some other headline grabbers...
Meticillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a mutant staph aureus which is readily found on peoples hands and is no more infectious or virrulent than normal Staph aureus.
Clostridia difficile (C.dif) is found in the digestive system of animals and humans.
Salmonella is so common that it is laughable that it is feared so much. Found in the gut is the same family as E.coli. Make up the flora of your gut.
Now that is especially relevant to what I am challenging here: the flippant oh I am ok attitude some are professing here. Because if you were serving up a load of uncooked burgers then there is a very good chance you and others would be not ok. And if that were the case the outcome could be very severe for some people and it's not like you can just pop to the GP and get antibiotics to cure such a bug is it.
Yes but these circumstances are on the end user. Do you want the government to come round and cook your food for you? Restaurants, food vendors, etc are audited and checked by regulatory bodies and have to adhere to standards. The ones you hear about DO NOT adhere and are highlighted, reported on, fined, imprisoned, whatever the law and a jury of their peers see's fit to punish them with.
These bugs can kill yes... but in very rare circumstances. The most they usually do is give you the trots. Had a loose stool recently? That's your body fighting an infection from one of these guys. Were you hospitalised? No.
Basic standards apply. Wash your hands and cook your food. It's nothing to be scared about.
Sorry, maybe I misunderstand you but I said quite clearly reasonable precautions I wondered then why you challenged this? You yourself say correct procedure should be followed - I challenged people who said this need not be the case.
I haven't disagreed with you. But as stated above these bacteria are so common. I can go and swab you, your house, surfaces not even used in food prep or in ablutions and still find these organisms... no matter how hard you clean. Nature finds a way (to paraphrase Jurassic park). Bacteria is in the water vapour in the air... every surface... you have more bacteria in 1 inch of your bowel than there have been human beings on this planet for all of time. You are a walking bacteria culture wrapped in hamburgers, living on a planet of bacteria culture.
Informing the public of an actual outbreak,
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Linky, is great and news. The article in the op is waffle and non-news.
Things to take away:
1. Wash your hands
2. Look at where your food has come from and been kept. Educate and understand the risks.
3. Cook your food thoroughly. Washing is usually unnecessary as it has been washed about 8 times before its got to you... but if it makes you feel better go for it.
4. Clear up after yourself.
5. Don't worry. People get sick... it's nice outside even with the lovely bacteria... have a yeast fermented beverage (yeast is also considered a food spoilage organism)
Get three chickens; one from a factory farm, one from a free range farm and one from somebody who keeps them as pets. They will all have campylobacter on them and you will get sick from any of them unless you pluck and cook them properly. 
