§ MR. CHANNINGI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he can state when the Departmental Committee appointed to consider the use of preservatives and colouring matter in articles of food is likely to present its Report.
MR. LONGI am informed that it is not expected that the Report will be ready till March next. The Committee have deemed it desirable to institute inquiries as to dairies in Denmark and Ireland, and they are deferring their Report until they have before them the result of these inquiries, and of certain physiological experiments which they have directed to be made.