WASHINGTON — The prevalence of salmonella on raw young chicken carcasses is down 34 percent over the first quarter of 2013 and represents a decrease of more than 120 percent during the past five years, according to USDA's Food Safety & Inspection Service's "Quarterly Progress Reports on Salmonella and Campylobacter Testing of Selected Raw Meat and Poultry Products" released on Oct. 25.
This report contained testing information from April 1 through June 30, 2013. Specifically for young chicken carcasses, 2,955 samples were collected and analyzed with a positive rate of only 2.6 percent for salmonella — a fraction. . .
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