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Lidl’s Campylobacter in chicken results above FSA target

By Joe Whitworth on September 5, 2022
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Lidl has reported Campylobacter in chicken levels above the FSA’s target for the second quarter of 2022.

The supermarket chain recorded 8 percent of birds in the highest category which is up from 2 percent in the previous quarter and 6 percent in the period before that.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) maximum level is 7 percent of birds with more than 1,000 colony forming units per gram (CFU/g) of Campylobacter.

Data from all nine retailers covers April to June 2022 on high findings of Campylobacter in fresh, shop-bought, UK-produced chickens.

Results at Lidl and Asda went up while Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer, Morrisons, Waitrose and Aldi recorded lower levels of contamination compared to the previous quarter. Figures for Tesco and Co-op stayed the same.

Asda informed that 2.4 percent tested positive for the highest level of contamination in the latest quarter compared to 1 percent in the previous three months.

Campylobacter is the most common cause of bacterial food poisoning in the UK and the dose needed to make people sick can be as low as a few hundred cells.

Lower or stable results

Sainsbury’s Campylobacter results for the second quarter of 2022 showed that 3 percent of chickens had levels about 1,000 cfu/g compared to 5 percent in the past quarter.

For Marks and Spencer, 1 percent were in the maximum category in April, 4 percent in May and 3 percent in June from 376 chickens sampled.

In January 2022, 4 percent of chickens were above 1,000 CFU/g, 3 percent in February and 10 percent in March from the same amount of poultry tested.

For Tesco, 3 percent of 298 samples were above 1,000 CFU/g in the second quarter of 2022, which was the same as the previous three months.

Aldi revealed 3.3 percent of chickens sampled were in the above 1,000 CFU/g category compared to 4.2 percent in the previous quarter.

Morrisons had 1.6 percent of chickens at the top contaminated level from 101 birds tested compared to nearly 6 percent from the same number of samples in the first quarter of 2022.

Waitrose and Partners had no chickens testing positive for Campylobacter at levels above 1,000 CFU/g compared to 1 percent in the previous quarter.

Co-op results for the third quarter running showed no chickens were contaminated at levels greater than 1,000 CFU/g.

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Joe Whitworth is a food and beverage trade journalist. Prior to reporting for Food Safety News, he worked for William Reed Business Media since 2012 as Editor of Food Quality News before becoming food safety editor for Food Navigator. Whitworth has moderated sessions…

Joe Whitworth is a food and beverage trade journalist. Prior to reporting for Food Safety News, he worked for William Reed Business Media since 2012 as Editor of Food Quality News before becoming food safety editor for Food Navigator. Whitworth has moderated sessions at Food Ingredients Europe in 2015 and The Ingredients Show in 2018. Before joining William Reed, he worked on newspapers run by Fairfax Media in Australia. Whitworth graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).

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