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Practice food safety, especially when preparing raw meat, poultry, and seafood.13
Avoid eating around animals or kissing pets.—Janelle McSwiggin, Health, 6 June 2025 Consumers who want to report a meat, poultry, or egg product: Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System at www.foodcomplaint.fsis.usda.gov/eCCF.—Saleen Martin, USA Today, 5 June 2025 Avian influenza is a virus capable of causing serious harm to both animals and humans, with significant implications for Canada's poultry businesses and international trade status.—Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 May 2025 For overall health, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend choosing lean, unprocessed poultry when possible.5
6.—Karen Berger, Verywell Health, 19 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for poultry
Word History
Etymology
Middle English pultrie, from Anglo-French pulletrie, from pulleter poulterer, from pullet chicken — more at pullet
Middle English pultrie "fowl raised for food," from early French pulletrie (same meaning), from pulleter "one who raises poultry," from pullet "chicken" — related to pullet
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