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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to help ensure that imported eggs and egg products are safe for consumption in the context of the recent salmonella outbreak.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps are being taken to help ensure that imported eggs and egg products are safe for consumption in the context of the recent salmonella outbreak.
I refer the Hon. Member to the answer provided on 10 September in response to Question 26962.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the context of the recent salmonella outbreak, whether steps are being taken to support British egg farmers to reduce levels of reliance on imported eggs.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, in the context of the recent salmonella outbreak, whether steps are being taken to support British egg farmers to reduce levels of reliance on imported eggs.
The UK is around 90% self-sufficient in eggs for human consumption and has been for the past ten years, demonstrating clear demand for high-quality, domestically produced eggs. In the 12 months to June 2026, UK imports of eggs and associated products decreased by 6% compared to the previous 12 months. In addition, the Poultry Sector Growth Plan is being developed by industry, supported by Government, to identify opportunities to strengthen our national food security whilst balancing broader environmental, animal welfare and trade objectives. This Government always considers the impact of overseas goods on UK producers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to safeguard UK food supply from salmonella outbreaks.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to safeguard UK food supply from salmonella outbreaks.
The Food Standards Agency's (FSA) is responsible for food safety and food hygiene. One of the FSA’s primary objectives is to control foodborne disease, and the FSA collaborates across the food system to identify and manage risks. The food hygiene legislation, official controls, surveillance of foodborne disease, outbreak investigation, and consumer advice are focused on reducing foodborne illness.
Food businesses are required to comply with food hygiene legislation and implement food safety management procedures based on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point principles to identify and control food safety risks, including microbiological hazards such as Salmonella. Local authorities and the FSA deliver official controls to verify compliance with food hygiene requirements and take enforcement action where necessary.
The United Kingdom also operates Salmonella National Control Programmes in poultry populations, including breeding flocks, laying hens, broilers, and turkeys. These programmes require routine testing and surveillance to reduce the prevalence of Salmonella at primary production level and minimise the risk of contaminated food entering the supply chain.
The FSA works closely with the UK Health Security Agency, local authorities, and other partners to monitor and investigate foodborne disease outbreaks. Where food safety risks are identified, the FSA can issue Food Alerts and support product withdrawals or recalls to protect consumers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the latest data published by the UK Health Security Agency indicating high levels of Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in England; and what steps are being taken to reduce incidence rates.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the latest data published by the UK Health Security Agency indicating high levels of Salmonella and Campylobacter infections in England; and what steps are being taken to reduce incidence rates.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) actively monitors and assesses the latest data on levels of foodborne disease (FBD) to determine whether action may be needed to protect public health.
Controlling FBD is a strategic priority for the FSA to protect consumers. Last year the FSA’s assessment of data from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) confirmed that its threshold levels for Salmonella and Campylobacter were breached. An update on the FSA’s analysis and response to the breaches can be found at the following link:
https://www.food.gov.uk/board-papers/foodborne-disease-update
There are several hypotheses for the increases in cases of Campylobacter and Salmonella. At this stage, potential causes are uncertain, but the increases are likely to be due to multiple, interdependent drivers.
The FSA is working collaboratively with partners across the Government to understand these drivers. The latest data published by the UKHSA will inform the analysis of the current hypotheses and help identify actions that could bring about the reduction of foodborne disease.
I. Report of the Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health (SCVPH) on benefits and limitations of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses (1998). 59p. II. Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to public health on the evaluation of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses (2003). 48p. III. Opinion of the Scientific Panel on food additives, flavourings, processing aids and materials in contact with food (AFC) related to Treatment of poultry carcasses with chlorine dioxide, acidified sodium chlorite, trisodium phosphate and peroxyacids, EFSA Journal (2008). 27p. IV. Assessment of the possible effect of the four antimicrobial treatment substances on the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, EFSA Journal (2008). 26p.
I. Report of the Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health (SCVPH) on benefits and limitations of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses (1998). 59p. II. Opinion of the Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures relating to public health on the evaluation of antimicrobial treatments for poultry carcasses (2003). 48p....
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on confirmed cases of waterborne illness linked to exposure to (a) Salmonella and (b) Leptospira at UK bathing waters since 2020.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what data his Department holds on confirmed cases of waterborne illness linked to exposure to (a) Salmonella and (b) Leptospira at UK bathing waters since 2020.
There have been no reported outbreaks of salmonella spp. associated with recreational water use in the time period requested since 2020.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) undertakes surveillance of Salmonella spp. infections. No information is available on the suspected cause of gastrointestinal infection for individual cases, unless salmonellosis cases are epidemiologically linked to an outbreak.
The UKHSA also undertakes routine surveillance for leptospirosis infections in humans, and publishes a quarterly report on the common animal-associated infections, with further information available at the following link:
Exposure history is not well reported by cases. Water sources may be in the United Kingdom or abroad, and do not necessarily reflect where the infection was acquired. The following table shows the most recent figures of confirmed cases of leptospirosis in each quarter, from Quarter one of 2020 to Quarter two of 2024:
Year | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Confirmed leptospirosis cases | 51 | 54 | 52 | 70 | 30 |
Potential exposure to water source | 18 | 17 | 16 | 21 | 6 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of salmonella infections have been reported in Birmingham in each of the last six months.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cases of salmonella infections have been reported in Birmingham in each of the last six months.
The information is not held in the format requested. Weekly reports with figures for food poisoning by region are available at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notifiable-diseases-weekly-reports-for-2025.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help ensure that chicken and chicken products containing salmonella is not imported to the UK.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what recent steps his Department has taken to help ensure that chicken and chicken products containing salmonella is not imported to the UK.
Both Defra and the Food Standards Agency (FSA) take this matter extremely seriously. We do not consider it acceptable for the UK to be sent poultry products contaminated with salmonella.
Following investigations linking human illness to the consumption of chicken products imported from Poland, the UK Chief Veterinary Officer wrote to the Chief Veterinary Officer of Poland in December 2020 asking that action be taken.
The Chief Veterinary Officer and the Chief Executive of the FSA have also contacted the Director General of Agriculture and Food Safety for the European Commission to raise our concerns and reiterate the need for action.
Additionally, the FSA has been working closely with Food Businesses Operators, including the major retailers, brand owners and trade associations within the UK, and with Polish competent authorities, to track down contaminated chicken products and ensure product withdrawals and recalls are undertaken when unsafe and non-compliant food has been identified.
Whilst we are working constructively with the European Commission, Polish authorities and suppliers to resolve this issue, we are keeping the possibility of the introduction of import restrictions under continual review, to ensure that UK consumers can maintain their trust in the safety of the food on their plates.
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.
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.
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 |
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that eggs infected with salmonella do not reach consumers.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what steps she is taking to ensure that eggs infected with salmonella do not reach consumers.
We have national programmes to control salmonella in poultry and protect public health, which require regular sampling of laying flocks. Where laying flock samples test positive for regulated strains of salmonella, the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) will alert the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Public Health England (PHE) and restrictions on the eggs will be put in place to protect public health which will apply for the life of the affected flock. Eggs from such flocks cannot be sold as fresh table eggs, but must be either processed by heat treatment to eliminate salmonella before entering the food chain, or disposed of outside the food chain as Animal by Products.
The General Food Law EU Regulation 178/2002 will be transferred into UK law at the point of exit by the European Union (Withdrawal) Act. Inoperabilities in 178/2002 have been addressed by The General Food Law (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019. EU Regulation 178/2002 lays down that food placed on the market must be safe to eat - it must not be ‘injurious to health’ or ‘unfit for human consumption’. Food businesses are required to notify the competent authorities, such as the local authority or the FSA, if they suspect that a product placed on the market does not comply with safety requirements. When Salmonella infection is confirmed in a laying flock the FSA works with industry, APHA and local authorities to ensure appropriate action is taken to safeguard public health.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of scheduled tests for salmonella in eggs that were (a) carried out behind schedule and (b) not carried out.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the number of scheduled tests for salmonella in eggs that were (a) carried out behind schedule and (b) not carried out.
National Control Plan official sampling is done annually as per legislative requirements. The British Egg Industry Council (BEIC) are an approved Industry Control Body for their own assurance scheme members and their annual official sampling is carried out by their auditors NSF International. Non-BEIC producers are sampled by the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA).
In 2018, APHA completed all official sampling on non-BEIC laying farms in the timescales required. 2019 sampling for non-BEIC laying farms is also on track for completion within the timescales required.
As part of routine regulatory inspections APHA inspectors audit each egg producer’s salmonella sampling records in order to review operator sampling. Where late or missed sampling is identified a penalty notice will be issued. In addition, where there is no clear current test present at the time of the inspection, the inspector will immediately take the appropriate samples for testing and will serve a notice applying restrictions to the eggs pending a clear test result.
The number of penalty notices that have been raised against producers in England are:
01/06/16-31/05/17 - 30.
01/06/17-31/05/18 - 44.
01/06/18-31/05/19 - 35.
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question
Lords motion to approve. Agreed to on question
My Lords, these instruments relate to biosecurity in Northern Ireland. Given their interconnection and for the convenience of your Lordships, they have been grouped together to enable co-ordinated scrutiny. They relate to trade in animals and related products, plant health, seeds and potatoes, and extend to Northern Ireland only.
The first...
My Lords, these instruments relate to biosecurity in Northern Ireland. Given their interconnection and for the convenience of your Lordships, they have been grouped together to enable co-ordinated scrutiny. They relate to trade in animals and related products, plant health, seeds and potatoes, and extend to Northern Ireland only.
The first...
My Lords, I have just one question for my noble friend. In referring to the trade in animals and related products regulations, he mentioned that the tripartite agreement will cease, which is absolutely true. He also mentioned that this first statutory instrument will refer to the movement of horses between...
My Lords, I have just one question for my noble friend. In referring to the trade in animals and related products regulations, he mentioned that the tripartite agreement will cease, which is absolutely true. He also mentioned that this first statutory instrument will refer to the movement of horses between...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction. As he said, we have discussed a number of these issues on previous SIs, looking at them in the context of our whole country, but there are obviously particular issues here given the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
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My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction. As he said, we have discussed a number of these issues on previous SIs, looking at them in the context of our whole country, but there are obviously particular issues here given the land border between Northern Ireland and the Republic
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My Lords, I thank the Minister for all the additional work he has had to undertake with regard to Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, this has come about because, as we know, there is no Northern Ireland Assembly or Executive to discuss and pass these Motions. However, I think all of us...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for all the additional work he has had to undertake with regard to Northern Ireland. Unfortunately, this has come about because, as we know, there is no Northern Ireland Assembly or Executive to discuss and pass these Motions. However, I think all of us...
I shall follow on from my noble friend. The Minister talked about the consultations between officials from Defra and the Irish Republic. Can he tell the House what consultations have taken place with the Ulster Farmers Union and the other groupings that represent farmers in Northern Ireland, and do they...
I shall follow on from my noble friend. The Minister talked about the consultations between officials from Defra and the Irish Republic. Can he tell the House what consultations have taken place with the Ulster Farmers Union and the other groupings that represent farmers in Northern Ireland, and do they...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the SIs this afternoon and for arranging a useful briefing for us beforehand. I particularly thank our Northern Ireland departmental colleagues, who joined us online and were particularly candid about some of the challenges facing cross-border trade, with which they...
My Lords, I thank the Minister for his introduction to the SIs this afternoon and for arranging a useful briefing for us beforehand. I particularly thank our Northern Ireland departmental colleagues, who joined us online and were particularly candid about some of the challenges facing cross-border trade, with which they...
My Lords, I have been very impressed by the debate. I remind Members of the House that there will be a debate on Wednesday afternoon on Brexit and biosecurity, which goes through this whole issue and applies much more broadly. The speakers’ list is still open. I am sure that...
My Lords, I have been very impressed by the debate. I remind Members of the House that there will be a debate on Wednesday afternoon on Brexit and biosecurity, which goes through this whole issue and applies much more broadly. The speakers’ list is still open. I am sure that...