Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-001195/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Tilly Metz (Verts/ALE)
In her reply on 10 June 2024 to written question E-001344/2024 on hygiene issues in the Polish poultry sector, former Commissioner Kyriakides stated that ‘the audit planned for this year will contribute to this follow-up and assess the effectiveness of the actions taken’.
The Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety published a report in 2024 on an assessment of Poland’s controls on antimicrobial veterinary medicinal products[1]. Commission experts state that there has been significant improvement in this important area of human safety, but there are still significant problems. I concluded from the response to written question E-001344/2024 that the Polish poultry industry would also be audited to assess progress in reducing salmonella contamination. An article published on 31 January 2025 in The Guardian entitled ‘Delays to post-Brexit border checks may have let diseased chicken enter UK’ stated: ‘officials were also worried that the salmonella contamination had become more widespread, involving multiple producers from Poland and a greater number of food products, the documents show. While attention had initially focused on breaded chicken and other highly processed products, testing had revealed that fresh chicken and raw pet food was also implicated’.
Can the Commission please state whether an audit of the Polish poultry industry was carried out in 2024, and if so, what was found?
Submitted: 20.3.2025
- [1] https://ec.europa.eu/food/audits-analysis/audit-report/download/16871.