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Food Poisoning

Volume 167: debated on Thursday 22 February 1990

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To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) if he will list the number of cases notified to him of the following for each year since 1980 until the latest date for which figures are available: (a) food poisoning in general, (b) salmonella, (c) salmonella enteritidis, (d) salmonella enteritidis P4, (e) salmonella typhimurium, (f) campylobacter and (g) listeriosis, respectively;(2) if he will list the number of cases notified to him of the following for January:

(a) food poisoning in general, (b) salmonella, (c) salmonella enteritidis, (d) salmonella enteritidis P4, (e) salmonella typhimurium, (f) campylobacter and (g) listeriosis.

The information requested is given in the table:

£000s
1984–85300
1985–86331
1986–87427
1987–88502
1988–89444
1989–90540
Total2,544