§ Ms. HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether he has issued guidance to health authorities requiring them to phase out the use of chlorofluorocarbons as sterilant gases.
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§ Mr. FreemanRegional supplies directors were advised at a meeting of the national procurement group in September 1988 that the small-scale use of chlorofluorocarbons in sterilisers as a carrier gas for ethylene oxide should be avoided, if possible, since pure ethylene oxide and ethylene oxide/carbondioxide mixtures were available as satisfactory alternatives.