§ Mr. John Hallasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what study he has made of the Report by the Food and Health Organisation Scientific Group on Procedures for Investigating Food Additives, a copy of which has been sent to him, which advises that a very high margin of safety for food additives in food which may show wide variations in daily intake; and whether he will give an assurance that these recommendations will be taken into account when considering to what extent the addition of cyclamates as artificial sweeteners may have dangerous toxic consequences.
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§ Mr. PeartI would refer the hon. Member to my reply today to a Question from my hon. Friend the Member for Brentford and Chiswick (Mr. Barnes) in which I announced my decision on the use of cyclamates in food. In arriving at its recommendations on cyclamates, the Food Additives and Contaminants Committee certainly had in mind the various considerations which are mentioned in the report to which he refers and also those set out in the Memorandum on Procedure for Submissions on Food Additives and On Methods of Toxicity Testing published by H.M.S.O. in 1965.