Radioactivity in Food and the Environment Report

HC Deb 03 November 2003 vol 412 cc509-10W

Mr. Chaytor

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to receive the Food Standards Agency report on "Radioactivity in Food and the Environment", 2002. [134073]

Miss Melanie Johnson

The Food Standards Agency published the report on "Radioactivity in Food and the Environment" for 2002 on 29 October 2003. Copies of the report have been placed in the Library.

For the first time, this report will contain data from monitoring of radioactivity in food and the environment throughout the United Kingdom. The report is a collaboration between the FSA, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, the Environment Agency and the Environment and Heritage Service of Northern Ireland.