Question follow-through · 120753
Food: Safety
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring food businesses responsible for processing meat and meat products in line with the regulatory approach used elsewhere in the food industry by allowing them to be fully responsible
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 16 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring food businesses responsible for processing meat and meat products in line with the regulatory approach used elsewhere in the food industry by allowing them to be fully responsible
18 Mar 2026
Target answer date
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23 Mar 2026
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) supports evidence‑based use of technology in Official Controls, but inspection requirements in abattoirs are set in assimilated European Union law Regulation, and are prescriptive, and divergence could restrict British acce...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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