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New Zealand - campylobacter centre of the world

Moves are afoot to ban the sale of chicken, except in its frozen form, in New Zealand.

The call comes after a report showed that New Zealand had the "dubious distinction of being the campylobacter centre of the world" A Food Safety Authority (FSA) report showed that all fresh chicken carcasses carried the campylobacter bug. It also detailed that New Zealand has more than three times the rate of notified campylobacteriosis as neighbour Australia. The rate of 370 cases per 100,000 people has been rising at about 12 per cent a year over the past five years. Over the last 9 years it is beleived that 11 people have died from the disease that causes diarrhoea, vomiting and stomach ache for up to a week.

[Chicken Little image from Disney]

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Tags: campylobacter, chciken, chicken new zealand, ChickenNewZealand, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, new zealand, poultry

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Kate

8-17-2006 @4:03PM Kate said... Can we ban images of Chicken Little, instead? I've wondered why Disney couldn't have designed a character that didn't have macrocephaly. More offputting than the bad meat, really.
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MJ

8-17-2006 @7:53PM MJ said... Now I am really scared! what with all the diseases and such with the chickens. You can cook it in a hundred different ways...........The crazy chicken, the mad cow and the swine has teh flu!!!LOL lifes too short.

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