§ Baroness Whartonasked Her Majesty's Government:
Why the committee on toxicity has considered only 100 papers relating to vitamin B6 and its safety (of the approximately 10,000 referred to by Professor Arnold Beckett and other scientists in a recent letter to the chairman) prior to making its recommendations; and how many of those 100 papers were read in full, as opposed to in summary or abstract, by the chairman and members of that committee. [HL309]
§ Baroness Jay of PaddingtonThe Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT) has considered the safety of vitamin B6 on two separate occasions and we are confident that it has reviewed all the relevant published papers on the safety of vitamin B6 as well as those unpublished papers supplied by interested parties. All the scientific papers on the toxicity of vitamin B6 were available to the chairman and the members of the COT before making their recommendations.