Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many food alerts were issued on salmonella in chicken in each month in (a) 2020 and (b) 2021.
The number of product recall information notice (PRIN) alerts published by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) because of salmonella contamination in chicken products in each month in 2020 and 2021 is shown in the following table:
Month | Number of FSA PRINs published |
January 2020 | 0 |
February 2020 | 0 |
March 2020 | 0 |
April 2020 | 0 |
May 2020 | 0 |
June 2020 | 0 |
July 2020 | 0 |
August 2020 | 1 |
September 2020 | 0 |
October 2020 | 2 |
November 2020 | 0 |
December 2020 | 1 |
January 2021 | 0 |