Page 60 - Turkey Book from Meathead

insing meat in the sink cannot remove common
bacteria which are often embedded in the muscle surfaces. In fact, rinsing makes things worse by splattering microscopic contaminated droplets onto the sink and counters.
Jennifer Quinlan a food safety scientist at Drexel University in Philadelphia said this about chicken in an interview on NPR, and it holds true for turkey and for that matter, all meats, “There's no reason, from a scientific point of view, to think you're making it any safer {by washing}, and in fact, you're making it less safe.
“You should assume that if you have chicken, you have either Salmonella or Campylobacter bacteria on it, if not both. If you wash it, you're more likely to spray bacteria all over the kitchen and yourself.”
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