Already, the probe by Shanghai authorities into whether Yum bought raw chicken with higher-than-permitted chemical levels badly damaged fourth-quarter results.

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Yum has taken a hit in China, where they derive a big portion of their revenues after regulators started a probe into allegedly high chemical levels in their raw chicken.

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Meng is in the process of publishing a related poultry study, which found that 70% of the raw chicken sampled, and 15% of the raw turkey sampled were contaminated with the nasty illness-causing Campylobacteria.

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On the other hand, soaking raw chicken in marinade for 10 minutes before you cook it will keep those outer layers moist, and help keep carcinogens from forming, even if it's cooked directly on the grill.

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We're only open Monday to Friday so a lot of our stuff comes in on a Monday - so all the drinks and cans came in and there were boxes and boxes of raw chicken breasts.

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In the big-screen version of the show, which is little more than a series of unconnected scenes, Knoxville and company do things like walk a tightrope over an alligator pond while tempting the gators with raw chicken stuffed into their jockstraps.

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It was later revealed, according to a March 2009 article in the Detroit Free Press, that Nielsen -- an emergency room doctor from Cleveland, Ohio -- had performed a biopsy on herself with the help of non-medical crew, who practiced using needles on a raw chicken.

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Dirt almost always equates to chicken manure and, if the eggs are produced in a free-range system, other raw agricultural commodities that hens might pick up from roaming freely.

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