§ Mr. CoxTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of salmonella were reported during 1999 in the United Kingdom. [117409]
§ Yvette CooperInformation on the numbers of cases ofSalmonellosis within England and Wales is collected by the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS). Information on data for Northern Ireland and Scotland should normally be sought from their respective administrations.
However, in a recent paper to the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food from the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre of the PHLS, the figures for the United Kingdom as a whole were given.
In 1999 in the United Kingdom, there were 19,798 (provisional data) cases of Salmonellosis.