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Food bug 'found in 73% of chickens' Food poisoning bug 'found in 73% of shop-bought chickens'
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73% of fresh shop-bought chicken tested positive for food poisoning bug campylobacter, UK Food Standards Agency says Some 73% of fresh shop-bought chicken tested positive for food poisoning bug campylobacter in a year-long study by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
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If you want to receive Breaking News alerts via email, or on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App then details on how to do so are available on this help page. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on Twitter to get the latest alerts. All of the major retailers failed to reach industry targets to reduce the bug over the period of the study, the FSA said.
Campylobacter is the most common form of food poisoning in the UK.
An estimated 280,000 people a year are affected by it, with poultry the source of most of the cases.
The FSA said 19% of the chickens had the highest rate of the bug.
Asda had a higher-than-average incidence of chicken that was contaminated at the highest level, according to the results.
Tesco was the only major supermarket to fall below the industry average, according to the FSA.
The study, which ran from February 2014, looked at the prevalence and levels of campylobacter contamination on the chickens and their packaging.