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Related links – Campylobacter

Background information on Campylobacter

• Detailed Campylobacter pathogen sheet – May 2001 [PDF 29 KB]

Media releases about Campylobacter

• New Zealand leads world on controlling dangerous bacteria -16 October 2009

• Court slams unhygienic poultry processing – 10 June 2009

• Poor food handling in the home under attack – 8 May 2009

• Scientific studies inform strategy to reduce incidence of campylobacteriosis – 12 December 2008

• New studies quantify foodborne illness in New Zealand – 12 December 2008

• New Code of Practice for poultry processing sector – 15 January 2008

• NZFSA announces additions to Campylobacter strategy – 12 September 2007

• Progress in fight against Campylobacter bacteria – June 2007

• Grant will help fund Campylobacter research – April 2007

• NZFSA moves to curb Campylobacter rates – November 2006

• NZFSA produces update on work related to Campylobacter – August 2006

• NZFSA considers fight against Campylobacter – July 2006

• Campylobacter problems not easily resolved – July 2006

• NZFSA concerned at increase in human Campylobacter infection – July 2006

Journal articles about Campylobacter

• FBI under surveillance - Food Focus June 2009

• New recipe for cooking poultry – Food Focus June 2009

• Campylobacter study provides some surprises – Food Focus June 2009

• Campylobacter strategy updated - Food Focus February 2009

• The cost of foodborne disease in New Zealand - Food Focus November 2008

• Freezing of chicken: the pros and cons - Food Focus November 2008

• New rules for poultry processors - Food Focus February 2008

• Keeping Campylobacter out of the retail chain – Food Focus August 2007

• Research programmes on track – Food Focus May 2007

• New Zealand leads international Campylobacter work – Food Focus February 2007

Campylobacter educational resources

For consumers

• Food safety in the home

• Meet the bugs brochure [PDF 426 KB]

• Tips for keeping food safe at barbecues

• Food safety for takeaway food, leftovers and doggy bags

• The New Zealand Foodsafe Partnership website

For chefs and commercial cooks

• Food service and catering food control plan - see pages 7 and 8 [PDF 2.3 MB]

• Preventing cross-contamination from meat, especially raw poultry

• Safe cooking of chicken livers  

• Food safety for takeaway food, leftovers and doggy bags

• Cross-contamination poster [PDF 292 KB]

• Separate your food poster [PDF 267 KB]

• Hygiene matters poster [PDF 238 KB]

• How to wash your hands [PDF 176 KB]

Codes of practice and guidelines for the poultry industry

• Supplier statement for the supply of poultry for slaughter for human consumption

• The broiler growing biosecurity manual - The Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand website [PDF 389 KB]

• Code of practice - processing of poultry

Campylobacter science and technical data

Science reports and research

• National Microbiological Database Poultry Monitoring for Campylobacter: Investigation of Not Detected Reinstates - ESR report July 2009 [PDF 97KB]

• Quantifying the reduction of Campylobacter jejuni on skin-on chicken breast portions frozen and stored for up to 10 weeks at -12^oC – ESR report April 2009 [PDF 233KB]

• Potential dissemination of Campylobacter by farmers' overalls in broiler farms – ESR report March 2009 [PDF 114 KB]

• Quantification of Campylobacter from Internal and External Carcass Rinses – ERS report December 2008 [PDF 557 KB]

• Campylobacter spp. enumerated from drips trapped in leak-proof packaged retail poultry - ESR report July 2008 [PDF 128 KB]

• Domestic food practices in New Zealand: Quantifying the reduction of Campylobacter jenjuni on skin-on chicken breast commercially frozen and stored for up to 10 weeks in a domestic freezer - ESR report May 2008 [PDF 403 KB]

• On-farm factors for Campylobacter contamination from broilers: literature review and overview of broiler farming in New Zealand – ESR report May 2008 [PDF 323 KB]

• On-farm factors for Campylobacter infection of broilers: Survey of broiler farms in New Zealand – ESR report May 2008 [PDF 910 KB]

• Enhancing Surveillance of Potentially Foodborne Enteric Diseases in New Zealand: Human Campylobacteriosis in the Manawatu – Massey University September 2008 [PDF 5.94 MB]

• Domestic food practices in New Zealand: Freezer survey – May 2007 [PDF 1.2 MB]

• Risk profile: Campylobacter jejuni/coli in mammalian and poultry offals – Jan 2007 [PDF 777 KB]

• Risk profile: Campylobacter jejuni/coli in red meat – Jan 2007 [PDF 903 KB]

• Domestic food practices in New Zealand: Temperatures of meat and poultry during transport after purchase by consumers – June 2006 [PDF 1.08 MB]

• Transmission routes for campylobacteriosis in New Zealand – May 2006 [PDF 784 KB]

• A systematic review of the aetiology of human campylobacteriosis in New Zealand – July 2005 [PDF 420 KB]

• Risk profile: Campylobacter jejuni/coli in poultry (whole and pieces) – June 2003 [PDF 1.2 MB]

• Ongoing collaborative research projects on Campylobacter and other pathogens

• Enteric zoonotic disease research steering committee website

Economic, social and environmental impact reports

• Annual report concerning foodborne disease in New Zealand 2008 – ESR report June 2009 [PDF 1.14MB]

• Consumer Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs with Respect to Campylobacter, Campylobacteriosis and Poultry (February to May 2008) – ESR report August 2008 [PDF 421 KB]

• Risk Ranking: Estimates of the Cost of Foodborne Disease for New Zealand – ESR report March 2008 [PDF 421 KB]

• Annual Report Concerning Foodborne Disease in New Zealand 2007 – ESR June 2008 [PDF I MB]

• Annual Report Concerning Foodborne Disease in New Zealand 2006 – ESR May 2008 [PDF 1.3 MB]

Campylobacter strategy documents

• NZFSA’s Campylobacter strategy, 2008-2011 (current) [PDF 202 KB]

• Campylobacter in poultry – risk management strategy 2007 - 2010

• Campylobacter risk management strategy update – March 2007

Last updated 16 October 2009