Meat & Poultry -- January 2014 - 14

BUSINESS NOTES
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CR makes a flap with
poultry-safety study
The National Chicken Council responded to a Consumer
Reports study claiming potentially harmful bacteria were
found on 97 percent of chicken breasts it tested. The NCC
iterated that 99.99 percent of the 160 million servings of
chicken Americans consume every day are safe to eat.
NCC noted that from 2001 to 2010, outbreaks related

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to E. coli, Salmonella and other pathogens declined more
than 40 percent. Additionally, Salmonella in chickens has
dropped by 55 percent in the past five years.
"The belief that affordable food means it is lower in
quality or compromised in some way stands in stark contrast to the hard work and efforts of American agriculture,
USDA and the hundreds of thousands of US farmers and
food producers who work tirelessly to produce a quality
protein that is the envy of the world and enjoyed by millions of Americans," said Mike Brown, NCC president.
In the report, "The High Cost of Cheap Chicken,"

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Consumer Reports states bacteria that could make consumers sick was found on nearly all of the 316 raw chicken
breasts its investigators purchased at retail. Specifically:
* About half of the samples contained at least one multi-

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drug-resistant bacterium, while slightly more than 11
percent of samples contained two or more multi-drugresistant bacteria.
* Bacteria were more resistant to antibiotics approved
for use in chicken production as growth promotants and
disease prevention than those not approved for those uses.
* A sample of a Foster Farms chicken breast from a plant
associated with the recent outbreak contained Salmonella Heidelberg that matched one of the outbreak strains.
Consumer Reports said it released its fi ndings about the
sample in October.
"Our tests show consumers who buy chicken breasts
at their local grocery stores are very likely to get a sample
that is contaminated and likely to get a bug that is multidrug resistant," said Dr. Urvashi Rangan, a toxicologist
and executive director of the Consumer Reports Food
Safety and Sustainability Center.
"The only way to ensure our food is safe 100 percent
of the time is by following science-based procedures when

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at 99.9 percent, but we're going to keep working to reach

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100," Brown said. ■

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