Posted By Joe Surely this is a bit fowl, but then again if you dont know the answers you can only charge them a poultry amount!! Couldn't resist, it's Friday........

Posted By Ron Hunter HSE free leaflet FIS11 "priorities for health and safety in the poultry processing industry" might give you some pointers. See also FIS14 'H&S in the slaughtering industry'?

Posted By angela westwood Hi Paul many, many years ago I started my working life in local government enforcement as a poultry meat inspector; zoonotic diseases and food borne pathogens were part of the syllabus of theorectical and practical study, ie avian TB, aspergillosis, newcastle disease (fowl pest to me and you - causes flu like symtoms in humans), campylobacter, salmonella serotypes (too numerous to mention), e-coli. It's been a few years since I've been working in that capacity and time and new reasearch has moved on - I would suggest you also contact the Meat Hygiene Service as the meat inspectorate office works under that area and see if they can give you names of official veterinary surgeons who can give you more information re the effects of working in a contaminated environment (particularly for those who load live birds onto the shackles at the ante mortum stage) and the method of entry into the human system for an employee working in a poulty abbatoir. Regards Angela