HC Deb 19 March 1999 vol 327 c635W
Mr. Baker

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what was the last date on which human vaccines containing bovine material prohibited for use in human food were used on humans; [76508]

(2) pursuant to his answer of 8 March 1999, Official Report, column 85, on human vaccines, for what reason he is unable to state how those human vaccines which contain bovine material prohibited for use in the human food chain were disposed of; and if he will make a statement. [76500]

Ms Jowell

No human vaccines for use in the United Kingdom contain or ever have contained in the finished product bovine material prohibited for use in the human food chain. Therefore, no vaccines have ever been disposed of for the reason that they contained bovine material prohibited for use in the human food chain.