§ 54. Mr. Hector Hughesasked the Minister of Health if he will give details of tests applied to imports to Great Britain of Japanese tinned salmon and other fish caught in Pacific waters for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not they contain qualities derived from radioactivity or other qualities, poisonous, or otherwise dangerous to human beings.
§ Mr. R. ThompsonThese, like all imported foodstuffs, are liable to inspection by port health and other local authorities for fitness for human consumption. They are not tested for radioctivity. I am advised that the risk of such contamination from recent nuclear tests in the Pacific is negligible.