Campylobacter cases in poultry are begining to fall

There has been a decrease in the number of human cases of campylobacter for the period August 2006 to April 2007, compared with the previous eight months.

Poultry Industry Association executive director, Michael Brooks, says monitoring has shown a reduction of about 10% in campylobacter levels at processing plants.

It is too soon to prove a direct link between that and the reduced number of human cases, however, he says the industry hopes that the efforts aimed to reduce this disease in poultry, which were introduced last year, are making a difference.