Campylobacter spp. is one of the major causes of bacterial gastroenteritis, inducing an acute self–limiting .
The Campylobacter infection has been linked to the consumption of raw or undercooked poultry meat. Contaminated poultry meat is the cause of 20%–30% of all casesใ Broiler carcasses are usually contaminated during defeathering and evisceration by contaminated faeces leaking from the cloaca or by visceral rupture of the caeca carrying a high Campylobacter load.During the recent years the observed consumer preference to foods produced with biological or environmental friendly procedures has increased the demand for free-range chicken meat and eggs. Broilers from free-range farms to be more easily contaminated by a number of pathogens, including Campylobacter, because they are in close contact with a potentially tainted environment. That isolates collected from conventional flocks were often more resistant than isolates from free-range chickens. Still there is a controversy