HL Deb 08 March 2001 vol 623 c43WA
The Countess of Mar

asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether the Medical Toxicology Unit will make the clinical records of the pilot study Surveillance of sheep dip exposures 23 September to 3 November 1991 available, subject to consent and confidentiality, to independent researchers who are carrying out government-funded research on the effects of organophosphates on health; and whether they would make these clinical records available, subject to the same conditions, to researchers who will carry out the forthcoming Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food-funded study Survey of health complaints among sheep-dippers. [HL981]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Subject to due considerations of consent and confidentiality, the Medical Toxicology Unit will be pleased to discuss findings of the pilot study Surveillance of sheep dip exposures 23 September to 3 November 1991 with independent researchers carrying out government-funded research.

The Countess of Mar asked Her Majesty's Government:

Whether they have information about the number of symptomatic patients who were subject to exposure to organophosphate-containing sheep dips and other organophosphate-containing products who were subjects of a clinical investigation by the Medical Toxicology Unit during 1993. [HL982]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Six patients were subjects of a clinical investigation by the Medical Toxicology Unit during 1993. All were symptomatic but not all had been exposed to sheep dips.