Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many bottles of wine were sampled by the Food Standards Agency from each EU country in each of the last five years.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) samples wine on risk basis and based on intelligence received from other Government departments or authorities in member states.

The FSA takes two bottles of a particular wine during sampling exercises. The information of number of bottles sampled from European Union countries is shown in the following table.