§ 34. Sir John Hallasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what research has been, or is now being, conducted in fluorosis in cattle grazing on land dressed with phosphate fertilizer or in close proximity to certain industrial plants, airborne fallout from which contains fluoride.
§ Mr. StrangStudies have been carried out on the risk of fluorosis in cattle grazed on land dressed with phosphate fertilisers. Expert opinion is that there is no such risk. The problem of poisoning of animals grazing near fluoride emitting industrial plants has been studied over many years in the United Kingdom and in other countries. Industrial fluorosis of cattle in the United Kingdom is now at a low ebb, and present studies are confined to monitoring in the vicinity of the developing aluminium industry.