To ask the Secretary of State for Health what steps he is taking to ensure that food poisoning incidents attributable to a failure of the pasteurisation process are correctly recorded as emanating from imperfectly pasteurised milk rather than from unpasteurised milk; and if he will make a statement. [78111]

Investigations into food poisoning outbreaks are usually undertaken by the local authority and the Public Health Laboratory Service. If milk is identified as the source of an outbreak and the investigation is able to establish if the milk was unpasteurised, contaminated post-pasteurisation or subject to pasteurisation failure, then this information will be recorded.