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Campylobacter rates forecast to double

Climate change could result in the rates of Campylobacter caused food poisoning doubling by 2080.

Although Campylobacter is one of the leading causes of foodborne illness worldwide it is not well understood. Its transmission is complicated and involved multiple hosts and reservoirs but one hypothesis is that house flies move the bacteria between reservoirs and humans.

Link to article:

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Agrifood Technology WA laboratory has NATA acrreditation for Campylobacter and many other microbiological tests on food.

NATA Link: https://nata.com.au/entity_scope/?q1=ig4&str=&&BEName=agrifood&state=WA

Please contact the Agrifood Technology team for further test information on this topic and to be sure your products are Campylobacter free.

Contact us on: +61 (08) 9418 5333 or [email protected]