Health expert accuses NZ Food Safety of 'very poor' performance over campylobacter rates
Verified: 3 outlets have reported this story since Nov 14, 2 of them from New Zealand.
But the agency's boss says reported rates of foodborne campylobacter infections halved between 2006 and 2020, and have decreased by a further 20 percent since then.
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- Nov 14, 3:24 AM UTCFirst report· you’re reading thisHealth expert accuses NZ Food Safety of 'very poor' performance over campylobacter ratesrnz.co.nz ↗
- Nov 14, 3:51 AM UTC+27 minOtago Uni health expert accuses MPI’s food unit of 'very poor' performanceodt.co.nz ↗
- Severity rose to medium
- Verified: a second independent outlet reported itNov 14, 3:51 AM UTC · +27 min
- Nov 14, 4:30 AM UTC+1 hNZ Food Safety accused of 'very poor' performance over campylobacter1news.co.nz ↗
[Claude] Report 2 covers the same accusation by the same Otago health expert against the food safety agency (MPI's food unit, renamed NZ Food Safety), adding the agency boss's response on campylobacter rates,
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