Major retailers publish campylobacter results for January-March 2019

The top nine retailers across the UK have published their latest testing results on campylobacter contamination in UK-produced fresh whole chickens which covers samples tested from January to March 2019.

The latest figures show that on average, across the major retailers, 3.5% of chickens tested positive for the highest level of contamination. These are the chickens carrying more than 1,000 colony forming units per gram (cfu/g) of campylobacter.