§ Viscount Lambtonasked the Minister of Health (1) if he will name those firms making pet food which used meat declared by Liverpool's Medical Officer of Health to be unfit for human consumption during the recent dock strike; what is Government policy with regard to the distribution of such infected food; and who authorised the use of such food by pet food manufacturers;
(2) at which corporation dump in Liverpool meat, unfit for human consumption due to the dock strike, was buried; whether he was informed of this burial; and on what date was the burial made.
§ Mr. K. RobinsonNo meat was declared unfit for human consumption by 145W the Liverpool health authorities as a result of the dock strike.
From early November, 1967, some trimmings were disposed of as usual by burial in double plastic bags at the Corporation dump at Otterpool. I was not informed, and would not have expected to be informed, of the resumption of this routine practice.
Meat found to be unfit for human consumption must be dealt with either by destruction or burial or by processing so as to prevent it from being used for human consumption, and the particular method of disposal is directed by the Medical Officer of Health.