Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many instances of faecal contamination on meat carcasses and offal were identified at official post mortem inspection and prevented from entering the food chain by officials working for and on behalf of the FSA performing meat inspections from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2020.

The Food Standards Agency does not separately record faecal contamination during post-mortem inspection. All types of contamination (faecal, grease, wool, hair etc) are recorded as contamination. The total number of instances of contamination that were identified and prevented from the entering the food chain for the period requested were as follows: