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Households are being reminded of the safest ways to handle and cook raw chicken, turkey and eggs amid a rise in cases of food poisoning. The UK Health Security Agency is asking people to be careful when handling items like chilled and frozen chicken and turkey drumsticks, breasts, thighs and chicken pieces after recording more than 200 cases of salmonellosis, which has been linked to raw meat and eggs. Lesley Larkin, deputy director for gastrointestinal infections at the UKHSA said: “Salmonella is a common bacteria that can cause food poisoning. Salmonella can be found in a variety of differen…

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