Consumer acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in the poultry food chain.

ABSTRACT: Reducing human Campylobacter cases has become a priority for the UK Government. However the public's views on acceptability of interventions to reduce Campylobacter in poultry production are poorly understood in the UK and in other countries around the world. The objective of the study was to investigate how increasing awareness and knowledge changes consumer acceptability of interventions that reduce human campylobacteriosis in the poultry food chain. This approach is readily applicable to other risks and associated interventions. It involved a survey of the views of consumers in the Grampian region in North East Scotland. This found that better hygiene practices on farm, freezing chicken meat and vaccination of chickens were acceptable to the majority of participants (95%,

SUBMITTER: MacRitchie LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4029083 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature