§ 49. Mrs. Joyce Butlerasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will introduce regulations banning the use of dried poultry waste as animal feed, in view of the fact that disease organisms, antibiotics and growth promoting drugs in poultry litter cannot be measured.
§ Mr. StrangNo, but my Department is currently considering suitable controls to reduce any disease risks in dried poultry waste used as a feeding stuff. Similar controls will apply to all animal proteins used for feeding to poultry or livestock and will require compliance with certain constructional and operational standards to minimise the recycling of disease and prevent re-contamination of the processed product.
513WI understand that techniques are available to detect antibiotic and other residues in poultry litter and, so far as possibly harmful residues are concerned, it is of course already an offence to sell feeding stuffs containing any deleterious ingredients.
We will shortly be consulting interests on proposals which would enable purchasers to evaluate properly feeding stuffs containing dried poultry waste.