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To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the adequacy of charges available to prosecutors under food regulations.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will assess the adequacy of charges available to prosecutors under food regulations.
Asked by
Judy Mallaber
(Labour)
Answered by
Melanie Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
5 November 2003
For answer on
19 November 2003
Answered on
19 November 2003
Judy Mallaber: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will assess the adequacy of charges
available to prosecutors under food regulations. [137584]
Miss Melanie Johnson: I have been asked to reply.
As part of its action plan to implement the recommendations of the Waste Food Task Force, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) has
undertaken to consider a number of legal issues with stakeholders. These issues include the offences available to enforcers when
taking prosecutions for illegal diversion of unfit meat, the penalties available for such offences, the time limits for
investigation of these offences and the issues involved with lack of a power of arrest for food safety offences. The FSA will be
discussing these issues with stakeholders at a seminar on 26 November 2003 to discuss the lessons to be learned from the
prosecutions in the Denby Poultry Products case.
Subjects
Crime; Law and order; Food; Standards; Regulation; Waste Food Task Force
Date
19 November 2003
Reference
137584; 413 c891W
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set up an inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the prosecutions relating to meat fraud (a) at Denby Poultry Products and (b) in Rotherham.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will set up an inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the prosecutions relating to meat fraud (a) at Denby Poultry Products and (b) in Rotherham.
Asked by
Judy Mallaber
(Labour)
Answered by
Melanie Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
5 November 2003
For answer on
19 November 2003
Answered on
19 November 2003
Judy Mallaber: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will set up an inquiry into the lessons to be learnt from the
prosecutions relating to meat fraud (a) at Denby Poultry Products and (b) in Rotherham. [137587]
Miss Melanie Johnson: Following the prosecutions for fraudulent diversion of unfit meat in the Rotherham case, the Food Standards
Agency (FSA) set up the independent Waste Food Task Force. The Task Force, which was made up of experts from enforcement, industry
and consumer backgrounds, advised the FSA on additional action that could be taken to prevent the illegal diversion of unfit meat
into the food chain. The Task Force also included enforcers involved in the Denby Poultry Products prosecutions. The board of the
FSA, at its September meeting, adopted an action plan to implement the recommendations of the Task Force. In addition to this, the
FSA has called a seminar on 26 November to discuss the lessons to be learned from the Denby prosecutions. The seminar will involve
those who were involved both in the Denby prosecutions and in other similar cases, including local authority enforcers, the Meat
Hygiene Service, the police and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, as well as industry and consumer
representatives.
Subjects
Contamination; Enforcement; Hygiene; Food Standards Agency; Prosecutions; Meat; Standards; Rotherham; Poultry meat; Denby Poultry Products; Waste Food Task Force
Date
19 November 2003
Reference
137587; 413 c1120W
House
House of Commons