Pesticides (Hansard, 28 April 1994)

§ Mr. Alex Carlile
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list all types of consumer food products in which organophosphates have been found by Government scientists; and if she will make a statement.

§ Mr. Soames
Surveillance carried out by the Government's working party on pesticides residues has detected residues of organophosphorus pesticides in samples of cereals, bread and other cereal products, fruit and vegetables. Details are published in the working party's annual reports.
Random sampling for organophosphorus compounds in cattle, sheep and pigs presented for slaughter is carried out under the national surveillance scheme for residues in meat. No traces of organophosphorus compounds have been found in samples collected from cattle and pigs. In 1992, however, six sheep kidney fat samples were found to contain detectable levels of diazinon but none of these exceeded the maximum residue limit.

§ Mr. Alex Carlile
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will list the grades and qualifications of each member of her Department's committee which evaluates the use of organophosphate pesticides; and if she will make a statement.
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§ Mr. Soames
The members currently appointed to the advisory committee on pesticides are:
Chairman: Professor Sir Colin Berry DSc, MD, PhD, FRCPath, FRCP, FFPM—Professor of Morbid Anatomy, Consultant in Histopathology and Director of the Histopathological Institute at the Royal London Hospital.
Members: Dr. Andree Carter BSc, MlSoilSci, MIWEM—Principal Research Scientist and Laboratory Manager, Soil Survey and Land Research Centre. Professor Nicola Cherry PhD, MD, FFOM—Director of the Centre for Occupational Health, University of Manchester. Professor Michael Claridge MA, DPhil, FIBiol, FLS, FRES—Head of School and Professor of Pure Entomology, University of Wales. Professor Anthony Dayan BSc, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, FFPM, Moil—Professor of Toxicology and Director of the DH Toxicology Laboratory, St. Bartholomew's Medical College. Mr. John Leahy MA (Oxon), CChem, MRSC—General Manager of Severn Trent Laboratories. Professor Donald Lee BSc, PhD, FIBiol, FRSA—Professor of Agricultural Zoology, University of Leeds. Dr. Alex Proudfoot BSc (Hons), MB, ChB, FRCPE—Consultant Physician, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Director of the Scottish Poisons Information Bureau. Dr. Eve Roman BSc, PhD—Epidemiologist, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Cancer Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford. Professor Geoffrey Sagar CBE, BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon)—Professor of Agricultural Botany and Vice Principal of the University College of North Wales. Mr. Roger Tayler BSc (Agric), Postgrad Dip Agric, NDA, CBiol, MIBiol—Senior Tutor in the Faculty of Agriculture and Food and Senior Lecturer in crop production, Department of Agriculture, University of Reading. Professor Paul Webster BSc, PhD, FBIM, FRSA—Head of Department of Agricultural Economics, Wye College, University of London.