1/5 of domestic ground chicken samples found tainted with salmonella
The Asahi reports that a survey has found that 20% of domestic ground chicken sold in Japan is tainted with salmonela (twice the level found in Europe):
The salmonella research, the first on a nationwide scale, was conducted from 2007 to 2008 by Katsuya Hirai, a professor of veterinary microbiology at Tenshi College’s graduate school in Sapporo.
With the cooperation of public health institutes nationwide, Hirai collected and examined 820 samples of ground poultry for sale whose place of origin could be confirmed.
Of the samples, 163, or about 20 percent, were contaminated with salmonella. That compared with 4 to 9 percent found in similar surveys in Britain, Italy and Spain in or after 2001, according to Hirai.
Worse, most of the salmonella strains found in the survey were resistant to antibiotics.
If you’re worried about salmonella, be sure to kill the bacteria by thoroughly cooking your chicken before you eat it.
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