Matters arising

ACM/MIN/101 Para 

Topic and action required

Action Taken

4.1

Minutes of the 100^th meeting

Minutes of the 100^th meeting should be posted on the ACMSF website

Actioned

Minutes now available on the website

6.5

ACMSF horizon scanning workshop 2022 summary of discussions and outputs

Secretariat to circulate revised report to the committee for sign off and publication

8.21

Update of Activity for the ACMSF Subgroups

a system should be devised to enable the full Committee to see reports/documents ACMSF subgroups have endorsed or published

Actioned

A folder has been created in the ACMSF Teams site entitled ACMSC endorsed documents.  Any endorsed documents will be saved here for committee members to access.

Committee members will be notified by email when documents are uploaded to this folder.

9.5

UK Food Safety Network

Share the finalised horizon scanning report with UKFSN

13.2 (bullet point 9)

Epidemiology of Foodborne Infections Group

Clarification requested on survey data provided

Work in progress. Paul Cook to update members during EFIG update in closed session.

13.2 (bullet point 10)

Epidemiology of Foodborne Infections Group

Clarification requested on survey data provided

Work in progress. Paul Cook to update members during EFIG update in closed session.

15.5

The third study of infectious intestinal disease in the UK

There was a query on the pathogens to be covered in IID3 as the list pathogens in paper ACM/1396 did not match the pathogens listed on the slides. Dr Kintz to clarify

Actioned

Updated list of pathogens provided by Dr Erica Kintz (see Table 1 below) *

Bacteria

Viral

Parasites

Salmonella​

STEC​

Campylobacter​

Shigella​

Aeromonas spp​

Diarrhoeoagenic E. Coli ​

Yersinia​

Clostridium difficile​

Clostridium perfringens​

Vibrio​

Norovirus GI/GII​

Sapovirus​

Astrovirus​

Adenovirus​

Rotavirus​

Entamoeba histolytica​

Giardia​

Cyclospora cayetanensis​

Cryptosporidium​

ACM/MIN/100 Para 

Topic and action required

Action Taken

5

Botulism in cattle, sheep and goats - update on recommendations from the ACMSF Botulism in Cattle, Sheep and Goats reports

Through paper ACM/1387, APHA responded to the points the committee made on the APHA update on the recommendations from the botulism in cattle, sheep and goats report. The committee at the February 2022 meeting was dissatisfied with the reply provided for recommendations 8.7 (Samples collected during clinical investigations should be archived to assist with the development of further assay systems), explaining that the Committee is asking APHA to either provide or enable storage, rather than to develop assays as the response implies, and 8.15 (the committee would like more information on the evidence that is being collected on toxin types other than C & D causing botulism in UK ruminants). Dr Steve Wyllie agreed to liaise with APHA in addressing the committee’s concern on the response provided in ACM/1387.

Work in progress. Steve Wyllie to update members.

ACM/MIN/99 Para 

Topic and action required

Action Taken

8.3

Salmonella Typhimurium in humans

(24% of human isolates were S Typhimurium) and incident rate in pigs (first quarter of 2021 had 21 incidents compared to 18 incidents in 2020 and below 10 in previous years) which reveals a picture of continuous increasing incidents of S Typhimurium. Salmonella in Livestock report in 2020 also suggests that there has been a greater than 10% increase in overall Salmonella in incidents in pigs over that period of time. When a similar query on this pathogen was raised at the last committee meeting APHA attributed the increases to the system used to collect data and indicated that they were considering a more structured survey of Salmonella prevalence across the pig industry. Dr Wyllie agreed to seek up to date advice on this matter for the committee.

Work in progress. Steve Wyllie to update members.