The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working on new limits on a common food poisoning agent that is not a household name: campylobacter.
The agency said that by the end of the fiscal year it will adopt standards limiting the amount of campylobacter allowed on chicken parts. The agency now has a so-called performance standard or limit of 10.4 percent for campylobacter on whole carcasses.
The plan to enact a first-ever standards on cut-up chicken, which accounts for the majority of sales, was mentioned in a May 16 letter from Agricultural Secretary Tom Vilsak in a letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
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