You should handle with care with raw chicken

Urvashi Rangan, the magazine's director of consumer safety and sustainability, told the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts the researchers went to 26 different states and shopped for 316 raw chicken breasts. The chicken was then tested for six different bacteria, all of which can be potentially harmful, she said.

"We did find 97 percent of one of the six bacteria that we looked for," Rangan said.

Even more worrisome, she said, was that many of the bacteria samples turned out to be resistant to three or more antibiotic classes.

She said that consumers may buy organic chicken thinking it's safer, but that's not necessarily so.

"All the way through from when you buy chicken in the store to you serve it on your plate, you want to exercise really good hygiene."

She stressed that it's also important to make sure poultry is cooked thoroughly. The study found that a majority of people think the cook their chicken long enough and at the proper temperature, but only 37 percent own a meat thermometer.

Follow NEWS.am Medicine on Facebook and Twitter