EUROPEAN COMMISSION ORDERS CHICKEN SALMONELLA CLEAN UP
April 1st, 2007
BY KEITH NUTHALLA MAJOR fight against salmonella contamination of food production has been launched by the European Commission, which has secured approval for a regulation forcing member states to reduce the prevalence of the disease amongst their broiler (poultry meat) flocks to 1% or less by 2011. Approved by the European Union's (EU) Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health, the law comes into force July 1.This follows the release of data from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that in 2005-6, almost a quarter - 23.7% - of EU broiler ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.