Poultry Meat: Salmonella

(asked on 5th March 2021) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 15th March 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

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