EU rules for Campylobacter on broilers require intervention if 1,000 Colony Forming Units per gram (CFU/g) for neck skin samples after chilling of carcasses in the processing plant is exceeded.

Stricter rules on Campylobacter have not yet led to a decrease in contamination based on figures from a German agency. Almost a quarter of carcasses in the country had Campylobacter counts of more ...

ISO/DIS 10272-1: Microbiology of food and animal feed - Horizontal method for detection and enumeration of Campylobacter - Part 1: Detection method and ISO/DIS 10272-2 Part 2: Colony-count technique ...

Seventy per cent of fresh chickens sold in British supermarkets are contaminated with the potentially fatal food-poisoning bug campylobacter, a UK government survey reveals. One chain had 28 per ...