Expert Lawyers Welcome New Way To Help Combat Potentially Harmful Bacteria

Specialist public health lawyers at Irwin Mitchell have welcomed a new study which has found that monitoring chickens’ behaviour could help tackle campylobacter as an important step in the right direction but warned that more must still be done to tackle the potentially harmful bacteria. 
 
The national law firm have repeatedly called for more action to be taken by health authorities to not only address food poisoning concerns, but to tackle these issues as early as possible.

The study from scientists at Oxford University suggests that by using cameras to track how the birds move around they can predict which flocks are at risk of being infected when they’re as young as seven to ten days old.
 
Professor Marian Dawkins at the university believes the breakthrough provides an early warning system that “has the potential to make a major impact on the management of commercial chicken flocks, for the benefit of producers, consumers and the birds themselves."

Up to 80% of campylobacter cases come from contaminated chickens, the world’s most popular meat item with nearly 60 billion birds consumed worldwide annually.
 
Irwin Mitchell’s specialist lawyers have helped thousands of people affected by food poisoning outbreaks in the UK and abroad.
 
Jatinder Paul, an Associate Solicitor and public health lawyer at Irwin Mitchell has welcomed the study as a sign that campylobacter is being given the appropriate level of importance.

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