§ MR. ALFRED DAVIES (Carmarthen Boroughs)To ask the President of the 1033 Local Government Board if he has now any official information showing that the stoppage of decomposition in meat during transit from abroad to the United Kingdom has any injurious effect upon those eating it; and if the Cancer Research Committee has reported on his communication to them in March last.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The Answer to the first part of the Question is in the negative. I have received a communication from the Executive Committee of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and I find that, they believe the stoppage of decomposition in frozen and chilled meat during transit from abroad to the United Kingdom his no injurious effect whatever upon those eating such food. The Executive Committee further believe that the consumption of such food cannot be held in any degree accountable for the increase in the recorded number of cases of cancer in this country.