Food safety: fact from fiction

WITH the weather trying its very best this summer and the World Cup well underway, there are no end of opportunities to turn up the heat and enjoy a barbecue.

Maybe with some nice chicken. Perhaps prepared with a quick wash in the sink? Possibly exposing yourself and everyone around you to potentially fatal food poisoning.

A shocking new report found that 44% of people wash chicken in tap water before cooking it, thinking it’ll remove germs. But instead, they’re inadvertently spreading a potentially lethal bacteria called Campylobacter. If you hadn’t heard of Campylobacter, it’s a leading cause of food poisoning.