BRITISH TURKEY FLOCKS RIDDLED WITH SALMONELLA, EFSA WARNS
May 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
ALMOST one third of British turkey flocks being fattened for the food industry are contaminated with salmonella, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has warned. In a comprehensive study of the problem across the European Union (EU), EFSA concluded that Britain has one of the poorer records within Europe, having a contamination rate above the EU average of 30.7%. In the UK, that rate is 32.2%, worse than all western European countries except Italy (38.8%) and Spain (56.3%). Key EU rivals France (13.3%) and Germany (9.2%) had a much cleaner ...
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