In previous blogs we’ve emphasised the importance of adhering to the key food safety principles of ‘Clean, chill, cook, separate’ (see infographic here https://bit.ly/2QCwsfc) in ensuring your chicken handling skills in the kitchen are up to scratch and that your roast chook doesn’t make you crook – but how does this relate to preparing a [...]
Chicken tartare, carpaccio or sashimi, anyone? No! I think pretty much everyone understands that you shouldn’t eat raw chicken and why (read more here about why… http://www.chicken.org.au/chookchat/remember-chicken-food-safety/) but given recent servings of chicken sashimi overseas we thought it a timely reminder to look at the dos and don’ts that relate to raw chicken meat and food safety. [...]
…or the oceans, in the case of chicken meat available to Australian consumers. Consumers often associate the beef and lamb that they buy as having been grown in Australia, but are not so confident about the origin of their chicken meat. Well, good news! Almost all chicken meat available for you to buy in Australia [...]
by Guest Blogger, Kylie Hewson There are many myths surrounding chicken meat, and keeping with the theme “Raw is Risky” for Australian Food Safety Week (6 – 12th November), which is coordinated by the Australian Food Safety Information Council (AFSIC Food Safety Week), we’ve decided to focus this month’s Chook Chat blog on those myths [...]
Do you ever take some chicken out of the freezer to defrost before leaving for work in the morning, only to get home and not feel like cooking? I know I do! A question we get asked often is whether it is safe to put the defrosted chicken back into the freezer, and the answer [...]
Origin of Chicken Meat Available in Australia and Measures to Ensure its Quality In the wake of a recent major food safety incident attributed to imported frozen berries, the ACMF has been receiving an increased number of calls from concerned consumers asking where their chicken has come from, and what the Australian industry does about [...]
OK – lets get this one out of the way up front….hormones are not added to chicken feed or in any other way administered to chickens, so there is no food safety issue related to hormones and chicken meat; nor is there any issue with unsafe levels of antibiotic residues in chicken meat…decades of testing conducted by [...]
