increased The burden of chicken meat in the retail trade of diarrhoea pathogens is dramatically in recent years. Green and consumer advocates see the cause mainly in the slaughterhouses.
In German food retailing is contaminated more than every second chicken sample with a diarrhea-causing agents. This is clear from the response of the Federal government to a written question from the Green group leaders Anton Hofreiter. Thus, 51.8 percent of the samples contained in the year 2017, the pathogens Campylobacter, while in 2011 were 31.6 percent.
– Green call for more Hygiene in slaughterhouses
Directly to the slaughterhouses, the Federal office for consumer found protection and food safety (BVL) thus, in the past year, even in the case of the 78.8 per cent of the broilers by the case agents. In 2011, 40.9 percent of the animals.
Hofreiter demanded that the Federal government should provide stations for more Hygiene on the battle. This meant that the government used in the EU, the limits for bioburden repair. Instead, the government put “your protective Hand prefer to talk about the Agricultural and beef industries”.
the head of The consumer rights protection centre, Association, Klaus Müller, also said it was crucial “that slaughter houses are better controlled, and committed to improved hygiene measures”.
In the United States is disinfected poultry meat with chlorine dioxide.
germ removal with chlorine
The German Association of food trade in permits pointed out that, in the United States the permissible method, the germs on the meat by chlorine, in Europe is not allowed. Therefore, there is for poultry meat Consumption. The germs, the meat properly cooked through.
According to information from the Robert Koch Institute, Campylobacter leads to 60,000 to 70,000 reported illnesses per year that the dark figure is much higher. Especially children, the Elderly and Pregnant women are often affected. In people with a weakened immune system, the pathogen to dangerous diseases lead
case excitation in every second chicken sample in the trade
Vera wolf fighting, ARD Berlin
11.01.2019 09:58 PM
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