date:May 20, 2015
of a million people in the UK an estimated 280,000 currently fall ill with campylobacter food poisoning per year.
Depending on peoples lifestyle and diet the FSA estimates that campylobacter will affect up to one third of people during their lifetimes.
Research has shown that reducing the numbers of the most highly contaminated birds would reduce the public health risk by around 50 per cent, saving thousands of people a year from falling prey to a painful form of food poisoning which, in some