HC Deb 28 November 1989 vol 162 c218W
Mr. Spearing

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what study his Department has made concerning the risk to women's health arising from internal sanitary protection.

Mrs. Virginia Bottomley

For several years the staphylococcal reference laboratory of the public health laboratory service has gathered information about the occurrence of toxic shock syndrome, a condition which is associated, very rarely, with the use of internal sanitary protection.

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