To monitor Salmonella's presence and antimicrobial resistance in retail chicken meat, the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria has been sampling chickens since ...

To address ongoing concerns, last year, the USDA proposed a rule to make poultry safer. It would have classified some ...

A new report from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has found that a potentially deadly bacteria was transmitted through ...

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced a new comprehensive plan to boost USDA’s efforts to combat foodborne illness. She spoke during the opening of USDA’s new, modernized Midwestern Food Safety ...

More than 23% of foodborne salmonella illnesses are attributable to poultry consumption, with nearly 17% coming from chicken meat and more than 6% from turkey meat.

Salmonella bacteria can be completely eradicated in meat and poultry through exposure to high temperatures, such as cooking meat and poultry to a minimum internal temperature of 165° F.

Chicken breasts, whole chickens, and ground poultry, including chicken burgers and chicken sausage, should always be cooked to an internal temperature of 165° F. Use a meat thermometer to check ...

A type of salmonella found in eggs is turning up more often in chicken meat and needs to be reduced, according to the Agriculture Department. From 2000 through 2005, there was a fourfold increase ...

Nearly one-third of ground chicken may contain dangerous salmonella, a new Consumer Reports investigation shows. Based on its findings, the group called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Kosher Chicken Kills 1, ... Americans, who eat more chicken than any other meat, should assume that all of it could be harboring salmonella before it is cooked, ...

The move is designed to prevent contaminated meat from reaching store shelves and ... as the Agriculture Department estimates 125,000 of salmonella infections from chicken and 43,000 from ...

Salmonella was confirmed four times in poultry meat, one from Ukraine and three from Brazil. One case involves more than 5,000 kilograms (11,000 pounds), or 420 cartons, of Brazilian frozen chicken.