[tonyedgecombe]

The US has 450 deaths from Salmonella every year, the UK has had 1 in the last ten years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonellosis_in_the_United_St...

[gadders]

I'd be interested to see what the relative rates of campylobacter are. I could only find UK figures, which were 56,729 cases in 2017.

I don't think campylobacter kills, but it's certainly not very nice to get.

[eesmith]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537033/ - "According to the United States Centers for Disease Control, there are about 1.3 million cases of Campylobacter infection each year in the United States alone." ("Update: December 29, 2019")

63 million population in the UK. 330 million in the US. Ratio = 1/5.2 .

57K cases in the UK, 1.3 million in the US. Ratio = 1/23 .

=> about 4x more likely in the US.

[ars]

That's because of mandatory salmonella immunization in the UK, it's not because of sanitary practices.

[ceejayoz]

That's an even stronger argument against allowing US chicken to be imported.

[ars]

Could be, but I think it's mainly an argument against US eggs to be imported, not the meat, which is the discussion here. I've never heard of someone getting salmonella from chicken meat because it's not normally eaten raw.

Although personally I think the US should have mandatory salmonella immunization (currently about half of egg laying chickens are immunized).

[ceejayoz]

> I've never heard of someone getting salmonella from chicken meat because it's not normally eaten raw.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/salmonella-raw-ch...

"Salmonella from raw chicken has made 92 people sick across 29 states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday."

[ars]

I stand corrected.

Maybe the trade agreement should be modified to require only immunized chickens to be exported to the UK.

[joecool1029]

Yet if you look at the cases they weren't transmitted from meat/egg end-products, it was almost always produce sources contaminated with manure from infected populations.