{"id":288,"date":"2018-10-01T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/?p=288"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T15:00:40","slug":"campylobacter-levels-remain-steady-in-uk-produced-chickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/2018\/10\/01\/campylobacter-levels-remain-steady-in-uk-produced-chickens\/","title":{"rendered":"Campylobacter levels remain steady in UK-produced chickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (13 September 2018) the major UK retailers have published* their latest campylobacter testing results, which shows that contamination in UK-produced chickens remains steady.<\/p>\n<p>The data from April to June 2018 shows that 3.7% of chickens tested positive for the highest level of campylobacter contamination, which is similar to that seen in the last set of results (3.8% from January to March 2018) and lower than the first publication covering July to September 2017, which was 4.6%.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019d like to remind consumers that the risk of becoming unwell from handling and eating chicken is low in Scotland providing you follow our good hygiene and cooking tips.<\/p>\n<p>The average percentage levels of campylobacter from the retailers tests can be seen below<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"col\">Months<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Contamination levels (cfu\/g) Less than 10 cfu\/g<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Contamination levels (cfu\/g) 10-99 cfu\/g<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Contamination levels (cfu\/g) 100-1000 cfu\/g<\/th>\n<th scope=\"col\">Contamination levels (cfu\/g) Over 1000 cfu\/g<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">July-September 2017<\/th>\n<td>48.7%<\/td>\n<td>28.3%<\/td>\n<td>18.4%<\/td>\n<td>4.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">October-December 2017<\/th>\n<td>57.7%<\/td>\n<td>22.0%<\/td>\n<td>16.7%<\/td>\n<td>3.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">January-March 2018<\/th>\n<td>59.1%<\/td>\n<td>23.9%<\/td>\n<td>13.2%<\/td>\n<td>3.8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th scope=\"row\">April-June 2018<\/th>\n<td>60.6%<\/td>\n<td>23.3%<\/td>\n<td>12.5%<\/td>\n<td>3.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>*The latest campylobacter testing results (April to June 2018) published by retailers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today (13 September 2018) the major UK retailers have published* their latest campylobacter testing results, which shows that contamination in UK-produced chickens remains steady. The data from April to June 2018 shows that 3.7% of chickens tested positive for the highest level of campylobacter contamination, which is similar to that seen in the last set&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/hospitalityfoodanddrink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}