HC Deb 08 September 2003 vol 410 c153W
Mr. Hayes

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the level of state funding for laboratories researching contamination of bivalve molluscs by(a) Novavirus and (b) hepatitis A virus. [128265]

Miss Melanie Johnson

Since April 2000, the Food Standards Agency has spent £1.5 million on projects relating to the contamination of bivalve molluscs by Norovirus and Hepatitis A virus.

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