§ 53. Mr. Sydney Irvingasked the Minister of Health what steps he is taking to fix appropriate standards for the purity of iced lollies of all kinds.
§ Mr. Vaughan-MorganI have no evidence that the existing arrangements are not adequate to protect the consumer.
§ Mr. IrvingIs the Parliamentary Secretary aware, first of all, that the demand for these lollies is increasing much faster than the demand for ice cream, and that one firm produced from one factory a million and a half during the heat wave? Is he also aware that, as the Food and Drugs Act, 1955, only prescribed standards for water ices, these fruit lollies are escaping the supervision of the health inspectors of the local authorities and it is urgently necessary that standards should be prescribed?
§ Mr. Vaughan-MorganI am advised that the Ice Cream (Heat 'Treatment, etc.)Regulations apply to most or practically all lollies, but I will look into the matter again.