HC Deb 17 March 1995 vol 256 cc773-4W
Mr. Matthew Taylor

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what monitoring his Department carries out of sea birds, sea mammals, fish or shellfish for dioxin levels; and in what way the results are made available.

Mrs. Browning

The Ministry has an extensive programme for monitoring dioxins in food which includes some samples of fish but not sea birds, sea mammals or shellfish. The results for fish were published in "Food Surveillance Paper No. 31", which is available in the Library. A further survey of sea fish will start later this year and the results will be published in the "Food Safety Information Bulletin."