Slaughterhouses: Inspections

(asked on 26th February 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, at how many sites has the Food Standards Agency detained meat since 1 January 2018.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 1st March 2018

Data regarding detained meat is not collected centrally. This is for a number of reasons. For example, detained meat is not always necessarily rejected as un-fit for human consumption. Meat may be detained for further inspection or while awaiting information, for example, results of tests or identification checks. Following these further checks or inspections the meat may be deemed fit for human consumption and released back into the supply chain. Data on rejected meat is published on the Food Standards Agency’s website when the audit reports are collated annually for cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry.

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