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) air sacculitis, (b) Marek's disease, (c) White muscle disease and (d) Oregon disease were identified by post-mortem inspection of poultry and prevented from entering the food chain from 1 January 2013 to 31 March 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
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

Air sacculitis

1,580,147

*Marek's disease

*4,210,460

*White muscle disease

*Oregon disease

Note:

*With poultry, conditions identified at post-mortem inspection point that are not specifically recorded by name are recorded into the FSA IT system as either ‘Other Factory’ (processing) or ‘Other Farm’ (for example jaundice, Oregon, white muscle). The total figure of 4,210,460 represents all ‘Other Farm’ conditions and includes the conditions Marek’s disease, White muscle disease and Oregon.

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