Question
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, how many people were medically affected as the result of drinking unpasteurised milk in each of the last five years.
Answer
Mr. Jack: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many people were medically affected as the result of drinking unpasteurised milk in each of the last five years. [17282] Dr. John Cunningham: Information is not routinely collected on individual cases of illness. Raw cows' drinking milk has been shown by surveillance studies to contain pathogens, and some data are available on illnesses associated with particular foods following outbreaks of food poisoning. The Public Health Laboratory Service has published data in `General outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease associated with milk and dairy products in England and Wales between 1992 and 1996'. This can be found in the `Communicable Disease Report', Volume 7, Review number 3 dated 7 March 1997.