Hi Phillip, in my very early years, part of my apprenticeship was being trained as a poulterer, now there's a trade that has passed into history. When dressing poultry, drawing them as it is sometimes called, the giblets (offal) was always given to the customer for stock or soup.

Giblets consisted of the neck, the crop, the heart and the liver. Believe me a chicken's liver is a sod to deal with, and it was a regular occurrence for the gall bladder to split. Then a simple wash under fresh running water was all that was needed to remove the bile, in all those years and thousands of chickens, I can say we never had one complaint. Several people died of food poisoning but they never complained about the chook they had been sold. The death was always put down to fowl play.