There are some industry representatives that have gotten together with consumer advocates to try to rethink this whole system. What people are advocating for is a more targetad approach, either looking more at how much samonella is being found on your poultry or looking for the types of samonella that actually do make people sick. You can a use or what we've called the chicken checker. It's an apt and it helps you look up the track record of the processing plant that processed your turkey or chicken.
A deadly salmonella strain is spreading through American poultry, and there’s not much the government can do to stop it. ProPublica’s Bernice Yeung explains.
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