One in nine portions of chicken we eat and around 340 million eggs are imported from Poland.

UK food safety chiefs are so worried about rising salmonella infections from imports they're considering a ban on some poultry products from the country.

Salmonella is a bacterial infection which causes diarrhoea, vomiting and, in rare extreme cases, can even be fatal.

In a letter sent to Poland's chief veterinary inspectorate in December, officials said they were concerned about the failure to tackle the disease in contaminated meat and eggs exported to the UK.

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