§ Mr. Biffenasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement indicating what additional information regarding contents animal feed compounders will have to provide as a result of French and Belgian proposals for a Community regulation governing the labelling of animal feedstuffs; and if he will make a further statement on the adequacy or otherwise of the present British law governing contents labelling.
§ Mrs. FennerI am not aware of any French or Belgian proposals for a regulation on the labelling of animal feeding stuffs but, as I told my hon. Friend on 15th June—[Vol. 857, c.381.]—a draft EEC directive relating to the marketing and labelling of animal feeding stuffs is at present in the early stages of 201W discussion. Current British practice is governed by the Fertilisers and Feeding-stuffs Regulations 1968, as amended, which will be superseded on 1st January 1974 by the Fertilisers and Feedingstuffs Regulations 1973.