diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/Production/StatsGenerator.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/Production/StatsGenerator.pm
index 5dc8568d2de80a00cbaf930b83a61a30a7894f70..2ac23d53cb23f2c0e5cea0b461689dfbc004b096 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/Production/StatsGenerator.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/Production/StatsGenerator.pm
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ sub run {
 
   while (my $slice = shift @sorted_slices) {
     foreach my $code (keys %attrib_codes) {
-print $slice . " got a slice with " . $code . " code and value " . $attrib_codes{$code}. "\n" ;
       my $count = $self->get_feature_count($slice, $code, $attrib_codes{$code});
       if ($count > 0) {
         $self->store_attrib($slice, $count, $code);