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Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has called on the public to stop washing raw chicken to reduce the risk of contracting campylobacter, a potentially dangerous form of food poisoning. The call comes as new figures show that 44% of people always wash chicken before cooking...
Campylobacter jejuni is the most common agent of food poisoning in industrialised nations. Professor Gary Dykes' team at Monash University, Melbourne, is trying to understand how it not only survives, but how it persists under conditions that should kill it.
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Campylobacter is the pathogen making most people sick in the United Kingdom and, earlier this week, the UK’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) formally agreed to target the problem at its principal source: poultry production. ...
When the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogens Institute (EPI) released a report on April 28 ranking the microorganisms that cause the greatest burden to US public health, many familiar names claimed spots in the top 10: Salmonella, Campylobacter and Listeria monocytogenes all...