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James Andrews is the managing editor of Food Safety News and a Seattle-based reporter covering science, agriculture and foodborne illness outbreaks. For more information on this article, e-mail him at jandrews@foodsafetynews.com.
At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria.
