HC Deb 19 October 1976 vol 917 cc402-3W
Mr. Teddy Taylor

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the current sizes of the various mountains of food in the EEC; and if he will also indicate the comparable figures one and two years previously, respectively.

Mr. Bishop

I assume the hon. Member is referring to food in EEC intervention stores, for which the information based on Commission figures is as follows:

would allow the beverage to contain a poison used for preserving dead bodies.

Mr. Strang

There is, as yet, no EEC directive on beer. A draft directive is at a very early stage of discussion between Member States and the Commission. The substances to be permitted for use in the brewing of beer will be considered as part of these discussions. The Food Additives and Contaminants Committee is at present carrying out a full review of additives in beer and we will be guided by its views on the need for and safety-in-use of the substances listed in the draft directive.

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