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.
John Harris, epidemiologist at Public Health England, suggests that in the last year there were more than 60,000 laboratory reports of the food poisoning bug campylobacter.
He added that due to under-reporting of milder cases, this figure is likely to be more than half a million.
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.