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Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement on the financing of the Food Standards Agency. [41585]

Mr. Rooker

The Government intend to consult with interested parties on detailed proposals for a scheme of charges that would pass a greater proportion of the costs of food safety away from the taxpayer on to the food industry. These proposals are being drawn up in the light

Funding body Research body Title Start date End date Price band
MAFF/DH/HSE Institute of Occupational Medicine Epidemiological study to detect well defined chronic effects in humans of dipping sheep with OP products November 1995 April 1999 A
MAFF Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne Study of the long-term electrophysiological effects of sheep-dip OPs in the mouse nervous system January 1997 March 1999 C
MAFF CBD Porton Down Dose effect profiles for OP sheep dips on brain electrical activity and sensitive behaviour indices in non-human primates Expected shortly 3 years to complete B
MAFF Covance Bioavailability of OP residues in fruit December 1997 March 1999 D
MAFF Institute of Food Research, Reading The impact of informational content and presentational context on perceptions of specific food risks April 1997 March 2000 C
MAFF Institute of Food Research, Reading Impact of media reporting of risk on public perceptions of OPs February 1998 June 1998 E
MAFF Covance Laboratories Ltd. Bioavailability of OP pesticide residues in fruit and vegetables December 1997 March 1999 D
MAFF Soil Survey and Land Research Centre Role of soil and crop management practices in determining the variability of OP residues in carrots May 1997 April 1998 E
MAFF Central Science Laboratory Analysis of individual carrot roots for pesticide residues October 1997 March 1998 E
ILGRA AEA Technology Risk communication benchmark study (includes OP case study) January 1997 March 1998 D
HSE Institute of Occupational Health Investigation of chronic neurophysiological and neuropsychological effects of exposure to OP sheep dips — 1995 C

of the comments submitted during public consultation on the White Paper, The Food Standards Agency: A Force for Change (CM 3830).