Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: More about food handling

[Rob Sandelin (robsan]

>Just a note to say that when you are handling poultry you have to be extra
>careful because about 30% of commercially sold birds are contaminated with
>salmonella by the time they get to the store.

An interesting note from a study which was published in my local Health 
coop newsletter was that salmonella and other bacteria live on plastic 
cutting boards 5 times longer than on wood ones.