Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many instances of (a) liver fluke fasciola hepatica, (b) parasitic lung worms, (c) lesions caused by the migration or development of the intermediate stage of the parasitic roundworm ascaris suum, and (d) the cystic stage of the human tapeworm taenia saginata 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 April 2014 to 31 March 2020.

The Food Standards Agency holds the following data. For the period 1 April 2014 – 31 March 2020 the following instances were identified at post-mortem and prevented from entering the food chain: