Debugging poultry in Europe

Consumption of poultry and other meat contaminated with Campylobacter causes severe diarrhoea in infected humans. A five-year EU-funded initiative worked to make the production of Campylobacter-free chickens in Europe an achievable objective.

A consortium of 10 institutions, the CAMCON (Campylobacter control - novel approaches in primary poultry production) project had input from seven European countries. They examined causative risk factors for bacterial transmission and colonisation and determined effective methods to prevent or treat such contamination in poultry.

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