HC Deb 26 November 1997 vol 301 cc596-7W
Mr. Jack

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide a breakdown of the foods accounting for the notified bacterial food poisoning cases in 1996. [17534]

Ms Jowell

The information requested is not collected centrally. The great majority of food poising notifications are sporadic cases notified on the basis of clinical symptoms in which it is seldom possible to establish the vehicle of infection.