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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Forty-Eight Percent Of Chicken In Small Sample Has E. Coli

A recent test of packaged raw chicken products bought at grocery stores across the country found that roughly half of them were contaminated with the bacteria E. coli.

E. coli, which the study said was an indicator of fecal contamination, was found in 48 percent of 120 chicken products bought in 10 major cities by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit group that advocates a vegetarian diet among other things. The study results were released Wednesday.

"Most consumers do not realize that feces are in the chicken products they purchase," said Dr. Neal D. Barnard, president of the group. "Food labels discuss contamination as if it is simply the presence of bacteria, but people need to know that it means much more than that."

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

.While most vegetarians, including these folks fail to realize the last two or more food recalls were from e.coli in salad packages and other veggies! HHMMMMMM!

Anonymous said...

In EVERY package of chicken, there is a little poop.

Anonymous said...

Bet Perdue chicken leads the list too!