§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what evaluations have been made of the risks in use of the pesticides(a) pentachlorophenol, (b) pentachlorophenyl laurate and (c) sodium pentachlorophenoxide by (i) his Department, (ii) consultants to his Department or (iii) agencies which report to his Department.
§ Mr. MacleanThe Department of the Environment has commissioned two reviews of pentachlorophenol, its salts and esters
Timber Preservation Chemicals: Volumes la and 1 b"— Consultants in Environmental Sciences Ltd. Published October 1988, placed in the Library, November 1988.Environmental Hazard Assessment: Pentachorophenol" —S. J. Hobbs, (Building Research Establishment) P. D. Howe, S. Dobson (Institute of Terrestrial Ecology). To be published in Autumn 1992The Department also contributes to the work of the International Programme on Chemical Safety, which in 1987 produced an Environmental health criteria document on pentachlorophenol:Pentachlorophenol: Environmental Health Criteria 71"—World Health Organisation 1987. ISBN 924154271 3.