§ Mr. Gardiner:To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to provide environmental health officers with the power to issue destruction orders on seized food products. [128655]
§ Miss Melanie Johnson:Local authority authorised officers have existing general powers to seize food products and take them before a magistrate to have them destroyed. They also have specific powers to seize and destroy illegally imported food products of animal origin.
There are no plans to change these arrangements.