date:Dec 14, 2018
to September 2018 show that on average, across the major retailers, 3.5% of chickens tested positive for the highest level of contamination.
These are the chickens carrying more than 1,000 colony forming units per gram (cfu/g) of campylobacter.
The corresponding figure for the previous set of results (April June 2018) was 3.7%, while for the first publication (July-September 2017) it was 4.6%.
Michael Wight, FSA Director of Policy, said: The latest figures show further progress being made i