HC Deb 01 March 1990 vol 168 cc326-7W
Sir Richard Body

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will place in the Library a summary of the evidence he has about the safety of food irradiation.

Mr. Maclean

I refer my hon. Friend to the following reports, all of which are already in the Library of the House.Report on the Safety and Wholesomeness of Irradiated Food by the Advisory Committee on Irradiated and Novel Foods (published by the HMSO 1986). Report of the Scientific Committee for Food (Eighteenth Series) (published by the Office of Official Publications of the European Communities, 1987). Report on the Irradiation of Foodstuffs by the House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities (published by the HMSO, 1990).