If you're laboring over a package of fresh chicken, wondering if you should wash it or not, the science is pretty clear. While raw chicken can cause food-borne illness, particularly cold E coli if ...

Although raw chicken and turkey can carry bacteria on their surfaces, research has shown that washing raw poultry under running water in your kitchen sink is a bad idea. If germs were visible to the ...

Washing chicken in chlorine and other disinfectants to remove harmful bacteria was a practice banned by the European Union (EU) in 1997 over food safety concerns. The ban has stopped virtually all ...

When it comes to the chicken, Flay is in the wrong, at least according to the FDA. Their advice for washing chicken is this: ...