HC Deb 11 March 1997 vol 292 cc205-6W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list with dates each known outbreak of drug-resistant campylobacter food poisoning linked to British poultry; and if he will make a statement. [19288]

Mr. Horam

I have been asked to reply.

The information requested is not routinely recorded.

Mr. Jones

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what research his Department has evaluated into farm animals as a source of vancomycin-resistant enterococcal infection in man; what assessment he has made of this research; and if he will make a statement. [19360]

Mrs. Browning

The "Report of the Scientific Committee for Animal Nutrition (SCAN) on the Possible Risk for Humans on the Use of Avoparcin as Feed Additive", dated 21 May 1996, lists the relevant information. A copy of the report is available in the Library of the House. The UK's independent scientific Veterinary Products Committee has considered the SCAN's report and agrees with its conclusions.