The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has published the latest results from its year-long survey into the presence of campylobacter in raw chickens, finding the presence of the bug in 73 per cent of those chickens tested.
The latest figures showing the extent of food poisoning bug Campylobacter among shop-bought chicken will be revealed today.
The Food Standards Authority will publish the results this morning.
Campylobacter, which grows in the guts of chickens, is killed through cooking but is the most common cause of food poisoning in the UK with some 280,000 people affected every year.
Last year the FSA named individual retailers for the first time, showing Asda to have the highest number of chickens contaminated with campylobacter and Tesco the least.
As the Food Standards Agency finds the presence of campylobacter in 73% of raw chickens, here is what you need to know to fight the bug.
Every major supermarket tested had significant levels of the bug present on their raw chicken samples, the Food Standards Agency said.