§ Dr. Strossasked the Minister of Food whether he has noted that every animal of every species, fed with methionine sulphoximine, the active principle of agenised flour, has shown severe toxic symptoms; and whether he will take this further evidence into consideration, and prohibit the agene process for improving flour as a matter of urgent public interest.
§ Major Lloyd GeorgeI am advised that, while pure methionine sulphoximine has caused toxic symptoms in the six animal species to which it has been fed in relatively large amounts, it has not caused such symptoms when ingested at the levels at which it is present in a diet containing normal quantities of agenised flour. Nevertheless, as I stated in my reply to the hon. Member for Huntingdon (Mr. Renton) on 12th November, it has been decided that the agene treatment of flour should be discontinued as10W soon as a suitable substitute has been agreed on.