The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, intervened in the row over food hygiene on Thursday demanding that the Food Standards Agency mount an urgent investigation into the processing factories at the heart of a Guardian investigation into contamination in the poultry industry. A safety audit will be carried out within 24 hours at two factories identified by undercover footage, photographic evidence and
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