Health Inspectorate tests of poultry samples in Malta have found no traces of the potentially lethal food-poisoning bug campylobacter, which was found in fresh chickens sold in all the UK’s leading supermarkets.

A damning report in the UK revealed that eight out of every 10 fresh chickens bought from UK supermarkets contained the food-poisoning bacteria which makes 280,000 people in the UK ill every year and kills 100.

Among the supermarkets named and shamed were Marks and Spencer, Waitrose, Tesco and Lidl.

Smart Supermarket, which imports Tesco chickens, said it has stopped stocking poultry from Tesco.

Arkadia, which stocks Waitrose products, and Lidl outlets import their poultry from Italy while Marks and Spencer stocks turkey but not chicken.

Moreover, freezing chicken can reduce the risk of campylobacter being transmitted to humans, according to experts.

More in The Times of Malta.

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