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Salmonella Outbreak in Sweden, Despite ClaimsThursday, February 8, 2007Food Production Daily Ahmed Elamin The country claims to have the lowest Salmonella infection rates of European Union poultry flocks. (A European Commission study last year found that among EU states Luxembourg and Sweden had the lowest levels of Salmonella infection rates in their poultry flocks.) These assertions were shaken this week, however, when 100,000 chickens were put to death in what is thought to be the country's largest Salmonella outbreak in poultry in a decade. Birds at seven farms in Sweden tested positive for the bacteria, leading to the intentional killing of the chickens. |