§ MR. ALFRED DAVIESI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he has any official information showing that the stoppage of decomposition in frozen and chilled meat during transit from abroad to the United Kingdom, has any injurious effect upon those eating such food, and especially whether it contributes to the increasing number of cases of cancer; and, if not, will he direct inquiry to be made into the matter.
§ MR. WALTER LONGI have no information to the effect suggested by the hon. Member. Whether the eating of frozen meat has any influence in producing cases of cancer is a question to which the attention of the Cancer Research Committee, now sitting, might, I think, properly be drawn. I have had the matter under my attention, and will con-
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