Updated project metadata. Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of foodborne human gastroenteritis in the developed world. Infections are largely acquired from poultry produced for human consumption and poor food handling is thus a major risk factor. In this study, C. jejuni were exposed to growth in a number of enviornmental conditions representative of the human gastrointestinal tract, including 0.1% deoxycholate (DOC), under iron limitation (induced by 1 mM deferroxamine, in the presence of chicken 'juice' or 'exudate (the thaw water of frozen commerical chicken products) and in the presence of mammalian mucin.