§ Mr. Farrasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to what extent organic fluoride compounds are, or have been recently, used in connection with food storage.
§ Mr. Scott-HopkinsSodium fluoroacetate has been and is being used occasionally as a rodenticide in the City of London and in the area under the jurisdiction of the London Port Health Authority but only when all other means of control have failed, and never in close proximity to food. It is being used in ships in the Port of London but not in 15W places where food is used or stored. Outside these areas my information is that sodium fluoroacetate and fluoroacetamide have rarely been used as a rodenticide other than in sewers, and not at all recently. The Advisory Committee on Poisonous Substances in Agriculture and Food Storage has been asked to advise whether further restrictions on the use of these substances as rodenticides should be imposed.