§ Mr. Martenasked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many people in each of the last three years have become ill through eating diseased or unwholesome poultry meat or food which has been contaminated by the guts or other viscera from poultry.
§ Dr. OwenI regret that figures are not available in the form requested. The number of outbreaks of food poisoning recorded by the Public Health Laboratory Service for the years 1972–1974 in 299W which the vehicle of infection was established as being poultry was as follows: 1972, 29; 1973, 34; 1974, 29. Information is not available to show whether illnes was caused by poultry meat which was diseased or unwholesome prior to cooking or by that which became contaminated after cooking; nor are figures available for the number of people who have become ill through eating food which has been contaminated by the guts or other viscera from poultry.