Livestock: Diseases Debate
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Huw Irranca-Davies
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Livestock: Diseases
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Jane Ellison
The following table states how many instances of the cystic stage (C Bovis) of the human tapeworm Taenia Saginata have been identified during official post mortem inspection and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for and on behalf of the Food Standards Agency since April 2012.
Rejection Type | Total number of conditions |
|---|---|
Cattle Cysticercus bovis—Localised | 539 |
Cattle Cysticercus bovis—Generalised | 47 |
Note: Localised included carcase parts and offal and Generalised included total carcase. |
Huw Irranca-Davies
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many instances of (a) Cysticercus Tenuicollis (adult tapeworm - Taenia Hydatigena), (b) Cysticercus Ovis (adult tapeworm - Taenia Ovis), (c) Hydatid Cysts (adult tapeworm - Echinococcus Granulosus), (d) Generalised (cysts identified in multiple parts of the animal including the musculature the consumer would define as meat) and (e) Cysticercus Ovis have been identified at official post-mortem inspections and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for and on behalf of the Food Standards Agency since 1 April 2012.
[Official Report, 1 April 2014, Vol. 578, c. 572W.]
Letter of correction from Jane Ellison:
An error has been identified in the written answer given to the hon. Member for Ogmore (Huw Irranca-Davies) on 1 April 2014.
The full answer given was as follows:
Jane Ellison
The following number of instances have been identified at official post mortem inspection and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for and on behalf of the Food Standards Agency (FSA) since April 2012:
Some conditions are not recorded by the FSA. The list of conditions for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry were created following expert working group workshops for each species over the last five years. Members of the workshops included stakeholders from the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Animal Health, EBLEX, BPEX, private veterinarians, industry vets, FSA, Association of Meat Inspectors.
The data for sheep, goats, deer and horses is from April 2012 to December 2013 all other species is April 2012 to March 2014.
Condition | Total number identified |
|---|---|
(a) Cysticercus Tenuicollis (adult tapeworm—Taenia Hydatiqena | 2,144,395 |
(b) Cysticercus Ovis (adult tapeworm—Taenia Ovis) | 190,489 |
(c) Hydatid Cysts (adult tapeworm—Echinococcus Granulosus) | 69,685 |
(d) Generalised (cysts identified in multiple parts of the animal including the musculature the consumer would define as meat)1 | 6,172 |
(e) Generalised Cysticercus Ovis | 2— |
1 Generalised—The figure provided the number of instances of the cystic stage (C Bovis) of the human tapeworm Taenia Saginata. 2 Generalised Cysticercus Ovis—there is no generalised data held for this. The individual number of incidences are reported. |
The correct answer should have been: