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Dr. Tony Wright
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what percentage of egg production was contaminated with salmonella in the last year for which figures are available.[67608]
Mr. Rooker
[holding answer 25 January 1999]: A Department of Health funded survey undertaken in 1995–96 indicated that, at retail level, about 1 in 600 UK-produced eggs (0.17 per cent.) were contaminated with salmonella.