Editing Campylobacter (section)

=== United Kingdom ===

In January 2013, the [[UK]]'s [[Food Standards Agency]] (FSA) warned that two-thirds of all raw chicken bought from UK shops was contaminated with ''Campylobacter'', affecting an estimated half a million people annually and killing about 100 of them.<ref name=FSA>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/9820838/FSA-warns-that-chicken-bacteria-could-be-next-meat-scandal.html |title=FSA warns that chicken bacteria could be next meat scandal |date=January 23, 2013 |work=The Telegraph}}</ref> In June 2014, the FSA started a campaign against washing raw chicken, as washing can spread [[Germ (microorganism)|germs]] onto clean surfaces by splashing.<ref name=FSA2>{{cite web |url=http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/campaigns/campylobacter/fsw-2014/ |title=Don't wash raw chicken |publisher=[[Food Standards Agency]]}}</ref> In May 2015, cumulative results for samples taken from fresh chickens between February 2014 and February 2015 were published by the FSA and showed 73% of chickens tested positive for the presence of ''Campylobacter''.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Campylobacter survey: cumulative results from the full 12 months (Q1 – Q4) |publisher=[[Food Standards Agency]] |date=May 28, 2015 |url=http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2015/14003/campylobacter-survey-results-12months |access-date=October 23, 2015}}</ref>