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This research project aims to develop methods that can be used in poultry processing to reduce microbiological contamination on carcasses.
Study Duration : October 2001 to March 2004
Contractor : University of Bristol
The FSA aims to reduce numbers of cases of food-borne disease in humans by 20% by 2006. In 2001 ca. 76% of reported cases of food-borne disease in England and Wales were due to campylobacters and 22% to salmonellas (CDSC, 2002). Chicken meat is an important source of campylobacter and salmonella infection. Clearly a reduction in the proportion of carcasses contaminated with these two pathogens and/or a reduction in the numbers per carcass would help reduce the numbers of human infections. This project aims to develop physical methods that can readily be adapted to existing poultry processing lines in order to reduce numbers of pathogenic microbes, especially campylobacter and salmonella, on the carcasses.
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