§ Lord Hyltonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether they will ask the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF) to take account of all increases of knowledge concerning antibiotics, resistance to them in both animals and humans, and other undesirable side-effects, occurring since the Swann Report of 1969.
§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Baroness Cumberlege)The independent Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food's working group on antibiotic resistant micro-organisms referred to in the reply my noble friend Lord Lucas gave him on 6th June at columnWA 143, will consider knowledge available since the Swann Report.