§ Dr. Roger Thomasasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he has taken steps to ban the importation of tinned foods from Spain which might contain or be contaminated with the lethal cooking oil used in that country in the current year.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergNo. I believe that existing procedures are adequate to protect the public. Stringent measures have been taken by the Spanish authorities to ensure that exports of olive oil and olive oil products do not contain toxic substances. Moreover, discussion within the European Community has established, on the basis of considerable testing, that there is no evidence of any contaminated goods having entered any Community country.