Watch your kids burgers, too. Children are especially vulnerable to Salmonella infections. Prudence also dictates that you fastidiously avoid cross-contamination of your kitchen, your cutlery, your meat and bread boards, even your doorknobs when preparing poultry or any meat. The number of deaths will increase as antibiotic resistance increases. The Food and Drug Administration employs 700 food safety inspectors and laboratory workers to monitor 53,000 food-processing plants and ALL imported produce.
Eggs are the key source.
No, that much booze doesn't kill it. Campylobacter jejuni is now the leading cause of foodborne illness. 1 in 3000 turkeys. 1 in 20,000 chickens. There is NO requirement for microbial testing in meat processing plants.