§ Mr. MartlewTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people have died through food poisoning where the cause of the illness has been traced to the consumption of untreated milk in the last five years for which records are available.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeConfirmed reports to the public health laboratory service show that during the last five years in England and Wales there has been only one outbreak of food poisoning resulting in deaths where the consumption of raw milk was responsible for or contributed to the deaths. This was in 1984 when there were eight deaths.
§ Mr. MartlewTo ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what are the provisional 1988 figures for the number of people suffering food poisoning where the cause of the illness has been traced to the consumption of untreated milk;
(2) how many people have suffered food poisoning in each of the last five years for which final records are available where the cause of the food poisoning has been traced to the consumption of untreated milk.
§ Mr. Kenneth ClarkeConfirmed reports to the PHLS show that numbers of cases of food poisoning associated with the consumption of raw milk in England and Wales in the years from 1982 to 1988 are as follows:
Year Number of cases 1982 612 1983 283 1984 406 1985 233 1986 347 1987 366 11988 22 1 Provisional.