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25% of Chicken Allowed To Have Salmonella | Los Angeles Times (lemmy.ml)
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Source: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-10-30/salmonella-is-widespread-in-ground-poultry-the-usda-knows-it-and-does-nothing-to-stop-it

Clip from an article that says: "The report also suggests that the federal government’s standards for acceptable levels of salmonella are unduly high, and potentially put American poultry consumers at risk. For ground chicken, the USDA allows 25% of samples at a plant to be contaminated. For ground turkey, 13.5%. Chicken parts should not exceed 15.4% of samples contaminated, while the number is 9.8% for whole chickens. “I don’t know, but seems common sense to me that if you allow for a lot of salmonella, a lot of people are going to get sick,” said Bill Marler, an attorney with Marler Clark, a national food safety law firm."
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[–] 1 point 2 months ago

Just cook your chicken. This is why the safe cooking temperature is drilled into food workers, especially with poultry.

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