Marks and Spencer has recorded the supreme Campylobacter in rooster finally ends up in the most up-to-date quarterly figures reported in the UK.
The most standard data covers April to June for 9 outlets on Campylobacter in unique, store-purchased UK-produced chickens.
For Marks and Spencer, 5 p.c were in the utmost category in April, 9 p.c in Would maybe perhaps also unbiased, and 9 p.c in June per a sample of 376 chickens taken from store shelves all the scheme thru the UK. This compares to 2 p.c above 1,000 CFU/g in January, 3 p.c in February and 4 p.c in March per exams of 292 chickens.
The Meals Requirements Agency (FSA) maximum stage is 7 p.c of birds with bigger than 1,000 colony forming items per gram (CFU/g) of Campylobacter.
Waitrose has now no longer as a lot as this level its results from the first quarter of this twelve months or supplied them to Meals Safety Info when requested to construct so. Ranges at the grocery store for the old quarter were zero p.c in the above 1,000 CFU/g category.
Outcomes of chickens in the supreme contamination bracket went up for all assorted outlets except Tesco.
Sainsbury’s had about 4 p.c of chickens sampled above 1,000 CFU/g when when in contrast with 2 p.c in the first three months of 2021.
Tesco recorded 3 p.c of 300 samples above 1,000 CFU/g in the 2d quarter of 2021 (2Q) when when in contrast with 4 p.c in 1Q.
Campylobacter is the most total explanation for bacterial food poisoning in the UK and the dose wished to construct other folks ill would maybe be as small as about a hundred cells.
Co-op results repeat 2.7 p.c of chickens sampled had contamination at ranges bigger than 1,000 CFU/g when when in contrast with 1.8 p.c in the old quarter.
Aldi reported 4.2 p.c of chickens sampled were in the above 1,000 CFU/g category when when in contrast with none previously quarter.
Asda recorded 1.5 p.c tested mosey for the supreme stage of contamination in the most contemporary quarter when when in contrast with 1.3 p.c in the old three months.
Morrisons had 0.8 p.c of chickens at the pinnacle depraved stage from 120 birds tested when when in contrast with none of 112 samples in 1Q 2021.
Lidl recorded 2 p.c of birds in the supreme category which is up from about 1.5 p.c in 1Q 2021.
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