§ Captain Kerbyasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in view of the facts that there is no chemical test for determining the presence of fluoroacetates in the tissues of humans or animals which have been dead longer than a few hours, and that there are no post-mortem findings of any significance in acute fluoroacetate poisoning, what research is being undertaken by 196W his forensic science laboratories to determine the cause of death with precision, when fluorcacetates are suspected from the circumstantial evidence.
§ Mr. BrookeWithin the forensic science service no research has been undertaken into fluoroacetate poisoning of animals. The problem of identifying positively toxic quantities of these poisons in human tissue is being considered.