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What can consumers do?
Consumers can protect themselves by:
- using a separate bag for packing raw poultry and raw meats when shopping
- washing hands with soap before and after preparing or handling raw poultry and meat and before touching anything else
- not washing oven ready birds (as this can spread Campylobacter around the kitchen)
- freezing raw poultry and meat, as this reduces the number of Campylobacter
- cooking all poultry products thoroughly (the meat is cooked properly when it is no longer pink and the juices from deep inside the meat run clear)
- preventing cross-contamination in the kitchen by not using the same chopping board for raw meat/poultry and other foods
- washing all chopping boards, work surfaces and utensils with soap and hot water after preparing raw poultry and meat
- avoiding drinking unpasteurised milk and untreated surface water
- making sure that people with diarrhoea (especially children) wash their hands carefully and frequently with soap to reduce the risk of spreading infection
- washing hands with soap after having contact with pets and their droppings.
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(Source 'Food, Nutrition, Physical activity and the Prevention of Cancer; a Global perspective'. Washington DC 2007)
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