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) faecal contamination, (b) tumours, (c) egg impaction and (d) septiceamia and fever were identified by post-mortem inspection of poultry and prevented from entering the food chain from 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2020.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) holds the following data. For the period 1 January 2013 – 31 March 2020 the following instances were identified at post-mortem and prevented from entering the food chain:

Notes:

¹ The FSA does not separately record faecal contamination during post-mortem inspection. All types of contamination (faecal, grease, wool, hair etc) are recorded as contamination.

² With poultry, conditions identified at post-mortem inspection point that are not specifically recorded by name are recorded into the FSA CCIR IT system as either ‘Other Factory’ (processing) or ‘Other farm’ (for example jaundice, Oregon, white muscle).

³ Septiceamia and fever are recorded as abnormal colour and are within the total figure of 17,346,319.