To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for South Shields of 9 May, Official Report, column 132, if he will list the contaminants now found in pigfeed; and if he will make a statement.
No present problems with contaminants have been reported and feedingstuffs associated with recent contaminants have been withdrawn.
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (1) how many pigs have now been slaughtered as a result of the contaminated pigfeed; from which counties they came; and if he will make a statement;(2) if he will list the up-to-date information concerning the number of farms and pigs affected by contaminated pigfeed on a county-by-county basis.
The total number of pigs that to date have been slaughtered for welfare reasons and the number of farms where pigs were affected by contaminated pigfeed, county by county, is as follows:
Pigs | Farms | |
Devon | 3 | 1 |
Hampshire | 15 | 1 |
Humberside | 85 | 7 |
Durham | 126 | 5 |
Nottinghamshire | 5 | 1 |
Yorkshire | 1,100 | 62 |
1,334 | 77 |