§ SIR EDWARD STRACHEY (Somersetshire, S.)To ask the President of the Board of Agriculture whether the Board of Agriculture has invited the Belgian or any Governments to a conference on the subject of the adulteration of dairy products, with the view of preventing such adulteration.
(Answered by Mr. Hanbury.) No such invitation as that referred to has been issued. A resolution was adopted at a conference held in April last, under the auspices of the National Dairy Society of Belgium, calling on the Belgian Government to submit to the Governments of the various foreign countries interested in the butter industry a proposal to appoint an International Conference with a view to adopt some Common basis of legislation as a means to prevent the exportation of adulterated butter, but, so far as I am aware, no official action has as yet been taken in this direction.