§ Annabelle EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs when in 1991 the Health and Safety Executive met representatives from the VMD and the National Office for Animal Health to discuss sheep dip surveys; and if she will place the minutes of the meetings in the Library. [63700]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 25 June 2002]A meeting took place on 25 February 1991 between VMD, HSE and the National Office for Animal Health (NOAH) to discuss the HSE safety survey on sheep dips and Controls of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) in general. Despite extensive searches of records by all three parties in response to earlier inquiries, no minutes from that meeting can be traced.
§ Annabelle EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) when in 1993 non-OP ingredients in sheep dip were removed from the market; and when the licence for such products was withdrawn by the VMD; [63698]
(2) when in 1991 sheep dip manufacturers were asked by executive agencies and non-departmental public bodies under the remit of her Department to change the formulations for sheep dip; and on what date the changes were effected. [63701]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 25 June 2002]Almost all veterinary medicinal products contain ingredients in addition to their main active ingredient. Minor changes to these ingredients in individual veterinary medicinal products are not unusual.
In 1993 a number of OP sheep dip product manufacturers removed phenols from their formulations. A full report of the regulatory action that led to this action 59W is available on the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD)'s website. Copies of this report have also been placed in the Libraries of both Houses. The manufacture of UK authorised OP sheep dip products containing phenols ceased on 31 March 1993.
§ Annabelle EwingTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what steps she has taken to secure publication of the 1992 study into sheep dip products carried out by the Central Veterinary Laboratory for the VMD. [63699]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 25 June 20021: We are not aware of any such Central Veterinary Laboratory study into sheep dip products for the VMD.