English “Guardian” reporter to find a job on the grounds, 'undercover' English a chicken factory, after five months of investigation, uncover shady contaminated chicken.
“The Guardian” reporter find a job in the food group's two sisters at Scunthorpe plant. This plant produced chicken supply the UK's largest supermarket group Tesco chain, supermarket chain Sainsbury's, American fast-food chain KFC.
He found in the plant, from production to packaging to sell the entire process, chicken encounter traces of fecal contamination.
He saw, in chicken factories require workers fell to the ground and may be contaminated after, pick up the chicken and put back the production line. Once, a dead chicken fell to the ground, while a worker pushing a trolley ran over from above. Management They then picked up the back line, with clothes and hands, rather than hand-washing.
“The Guardian” said scalding replace irrigation water only once a day after the end of the day, the water inside is full of manure and sludge while it is common practice in the UK poultry production industry.
[Condone the spread of germs]
“The Guardian” said poultry plants for health supervision neglect, connivance of the spread of Campylobacter Britain in the sale of fresh chicken, two-thirds by Campylobacter contamination.
Although thorough cooking can kill Campylobacter high temperature, but this pathogenic bacterium 280,000 people each year in the UK every year about 100 people are believed killed by Campylobacter.
Campylobacter contamination of food is not for the public aware of, but for business owners, executives and government officials in the retail group, its size and pathogenic contamination in the past 10 years the number has been an open secret.
However, the British Food Standards Agency on the 23rd refused to criticize excessive poultry Campylobacter supermarkets and factories.
[Monopoly increased risk]
Spread poultry production industry rely on meager retailers and large catering companies to provide money only to rely on a very large scale of production to make a profit, which not only promotes faster production, production is concentrated in the same formation(Finance News.
At this stage, four companies monopolize most of the UK poultry market, of which two sisters Food Group is the UK's largest poultry producers.
Usually deal with large-scale slaughter pipeline 185-195 birds per minute, or nearly 12,000 per hour.
Source: Wantinews