HC Deb 12 June 1986 vol 99 c295W
169. Mr. Hirst

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services what discussions his Department has had with the food and drink manufacturing industries about the treatment of food intolerances.

Mr. Whitney

This Department has had no such discussions. Officials did, however, participate in the work of the Committee formed by the Royal College of Physicians and the British Nutrition Foundation whose joint report was published in April 1984. The treatment for a patient with this reaction is a matter for the clinical judgment of the responsible medical practitioner.