Revealed: the dirty secret of the UK’s
poultry industry
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Two-thirds of fresh retail chicken in UK contaminated with campylobacter• Guardian findings prompt investigations at three major supermarkets
• Government shelves plans to name and shame suppliers
Food poisoning scandal: how chicken spreads campylobacter
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Three of the UK’s leading supermarkets have launched emergency investigations into their chicken supplies after a Guardian investigation uncovered a catalogue of alleged hygiene failings in the poultry industry.