Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of (a) cysticercus tenuicollis, (b) cysticercus ovis, (c) hydatid cysts and (d) generalised cysticecus ovis were 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 performing meat inspections from 1 January 2014 to 1 June 2018.
The Food Standards Agency holds the following data. For the period 1 January 2014 – 31 June 2018 the following instances were identified at post-mortem and prevented from entering the food chain:
Condition | Number of Instances |
Cysticercus Tenuicollis | 4,544,896 |
Cysticercus Ovis | 480,038 |
Hydatid Cysts | 115,844 |
Generalised Cysticecus Ovis | 5,946 |
Prior to 2016, the data for Cysticercus Ovis was not separated between generalised C. ovis and localised C. ovis. The 225,251 instances between the period 1 April 2014 and 31 December 2015 have been included in the 480,038 figure.