Question follow-through · 106807
Meat: Smuggling
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether mandatory testing of seized illegal meat imports includes testing for infectious agents such as foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, and antimicrobial resistance genes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 19 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 2 Feb 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
19 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether mandatory testing of seized illegal meat imports includes testing for infectious agents such as foot-and-mouth disease, African swine fever, and antimicrobial resistance genes.
22 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Feb 2026
Answer published
Defra does not test seized illegal meat imports for infectious agents. Border Force and local authorities seize illegal meat imports, which must be safely disposed of in accordance with animal by-products rules.
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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