Food Sampling
Food Samples are purchased
anonymously or taken with the proprietors consent by an authorised
officer. These samples will be analysed by the Health
Protection Agency Laboratory at Preston.
Sampling Programme
This authority undertakes routine
food sampling work in accordance with our Sampling Policy and
Procedure as part of a planned program throughout the year.
The types of food sampled varies according to national and local
inititives. The purpose of this work is to contribute to
information regarding the microbiolgical safety of foods on
sale nationally and locally.
South Lakeland District Council
will be taking part in the following Microbiological Sampling
surveys between May 2011 and September 2011.
- Local survey on raw milk cheese
- Local survey on poultry liver pate/parfait
- Local survey on retail pasteurised milk
- Local survey on shopping trolley
- Local survey on bean sprouts/sprouted seeds
- LGR/HPA study on lightly cooked food
- Dairy samples
Interpreting micro results (PDF, 60 Kb)
FSA survey on Non-UK Eggs for salmonella
The Food Standards Agency has published its findings of a
survey of salmonella contamination in eggs produced outside the UK
and on retail sale in England. In the eggs sampled, salmonella was
estimated to be in around one box in every 30 (3.3%).
A total of 1,744 boxes of six eggs or more were sampled.
Salmonella contamination on the egg shell was found in 157 box
samples. While most of the salmonella was found in eggs from Spain,
most of the contaminated eggs came from just three farms. The only
other country with sufficient numbers of contaminated samples to
estimate prevalence was France, with a contamination rate of around
one in 170 boxes.