However, consumers are concerned about the
microbial safety of poultry meat because of the knowledge
that poultry meats are highly perishable due to bacterial
contamination (Hong et al. 2007; Rahman et al. 2012), and
some bacterial contaminants in poultry meat have been recognized
as foodborne human pathogen (Capita et al. 2001).
Salmonella, Listeria, Campylobacter and Escherichia coli are
naturally present bacterial contaminants in chicken intestine
(Anang et al. 2007).