Brussels, 25/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - The standing committee on the food chain and animal health gave its blessing to a proposal, on 25 April, aiming to reduce the prevalence of salmonella in chickens raised for human consumption. Under the draft regulation, which is to enter into force on 1 July 2007, the member states will have to reduce the prevalence of these bacteria, which are responsible for cases of food poisoning, often collective cases, to 1% between now and 2011. This threshold...