§ 78. Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, as representing the Lord President of the Council, if he will state the nation-wide average strontium 90 content of milk in Great Britain in March and December, 1958; and what similar figures he has for 1959.
§ Mr. GodberThe variation in the country-wide average content of strontium 90 per litre of milk during 1958 is shown in Figure 5 of the Report "Strontium 90 in Human Diet in the United Kingdom 1958", published earlier this month by the Agricultural Research Council's Radiobiological Laboratory. Copies of the Report have been placed in the Library of the House.
The results for 1959 will be published in due course.