France: Salmonella study in poultry flocks
04 January 2010
Researchers from the French Food Safety Agency and the French Agricultural Ministry have conducted an epidemiological study to estimate the prevalence of Salmonella spp. contamination in French commercial breeding and fattening turkey flocks at the end of the rearing period. This study is part of a European Union-wide baseline study.
The study, published in The Journal of Preventive Medicine, was done in 205 breeding turkey flocks and 302 fattening turkey flocks, between October 2006 and September 2007.
The Salmonella status of flocks was assessed by collecting five environmental feces samples, analyzed by classical bacteriological method. The prevalence of Salmonella positive flocks was 1.5% for breeding turkeys and 15.6% for fattening turkeys.