EFSA RELEASES FRESH DATA ON SALMONELLA IN BROILER FLOCKS
March 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has unveiled further data underlining the risk to human health posed by widespread contamination of broiler chicken flocks across Europe with the pathogen salmonella. In its latest figures, which back earlier alarming data about salmonella contamination within egg production systems, EFSA said that in 2005-6, almost a quarter - 23.7% - of EU broiler (meat) flocks were contaminated with salmonella. This data from EFSA's zoonoses task force will be used by the European Commission in setting a future three ...
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