PCRM | Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces, Testing Finds

PCRM | Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces, Testing Finds.

Nearly half the chicken products marketed by national brands and sold in supermarkets are contaminated with feces,according to laboratory test results of chicken samples from 15 grocery store chains in 10 major U.S. cities. The testing was conducted by an independent analytical testing laboratory at the request of the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

As PCRM notes: “The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now considering privatizing poultry inspection. The proposal would reduce the time poultry workers have to inspect each carcass for feces and could result in more contaminated chicken products reaching supermarket shelves.”