Food Poisoning Debate

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Baroness Wheeler

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Food Poisoning

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Tuesday 24th June 2014

(10 years, 6 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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I have no information in my brief to that effect. However, it should be said that this scheme has been adopted by all but two local authorities in England, the two exceptions being the Royal Borough of Greenwich, which is ready to implement it, and Rutland, which is somewhat anxious about the success of businesses.

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Do the Government agree with Professor Chris Elliott, whom they commissioned to review food safety in the wake of the horsemeat scandal, that the Food Standards Agency should be given new powers to tackle fraud through a food crime unit?

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I regret that I shall have to write to the noble Baroness on that issue.