January 2009

Campylobacter infections still topped the list of zoonotic diseases in the European Union as of 2007.

That at least is the finding of The European Food Safety Authority’s and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s Community Zoonoses Report for 2007, which monitors the occurrence of infectious diseases that can be transmitted from animals

The UK’s Farmers Weekly Interactive (FWI) is reporting that the British Poultry Council wants the government’s Food Standards Agency to join it in setting up a technical group to come up with “cost effective measures for tackling campylobacter.

FWI quotes the Council’s Ted Wright as saying: “Foodborne illness caused by campylobacter infection is still a