"raw chicken" news and stories

You might want to think twice before rinsing off raw chicken in your kitchen sink.

Recent studies by the British Food Standards Agency show that rinsing chicken can potentially spread bacteria on work surfaces in a three-foot radius, The Daily Telegraph reported. The report says up to 75 percent of consumers wash poultry before consuming it.

The FSA says 65 percent of raw chicken is contaminated with campylobacer, the most common cause of food poisoning, the paper reported. And while cooking will kill the bug, Campylobacter causes more than 300,000 cases of food poisoning and 15,000 hospitalizations a year in England and Wales.

Perhaps this is the last thing you want to see or read about on a food site like Slashfood, but here's to hoping that on a late Sunday afternoon, you're preparing your own food at home instead of hopping into a car to hit up McDonald's. You might end up like Susie Felber, who went to a McDonald's in Windsor, Connecticut, ordered and Chicken Sandwich, and found the chicken to be raw! She emailed the folks over at Fast Food News, and has a set of photos on Flickr to document her experience. I'm a little surprised that this occurred back in March, and I hadn't heard all that much about it until now, but hopefully the reason is that Susie didn't get sick from it!

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