Pro-shechita campaigners have confirmed they will carry on providing the Food Standards Agency with the number of animals slaughtered for kosher meat after the FSA announced it would no longer collect its own figures.
Shechita UK, which defends religious slaughter, said it would continue to help following the agency's decision not to gather the information in its new monthly survey of abattoirs.
Shimon Cohen, spokesman for Shechita UK, said the organisation already kept its own figures and was happy to share them with the FSA.
He told the JC: "We have always provided the data and are ready to continue doing so."
