Poultry Meat: Inspections
(asked on 22nd June 2020) - View Source
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) cellulitis, (b) dermatitis, (c) ascites and (d) salpingitis were identified by post-mortem inspection of poultry and prevented from entering the food chain from 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2020.
This question was answered on 7th July 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:
Condition | Number of Instances |
Cellulitis | 13,567,060 |
Dermatitis | 1,656,566 |
Ascites | 20,720,105 |
Salpingitis | 637,150 |