Horsemeat (Food Fraud) Debate

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Department: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Julie Elliott

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Horsemeat (Food Fraud)

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Point of Order
Monday 11th February 2013

(11 years, 2 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Owen Paterson Portrait Mr Paterson
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I look forward to sitting down with my hon. Friend and coming up with a legal definition of “disgusting food”. Let me be more positive and refer to my earlier replies: there is splendid food grown in my hon. Friend’s part of England, and I would strongly recommend his constituents to buy local.

Julie Elliott Portrait Julie Elliott (Sunderland Central) (Lab)
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Does the Secretary of State have confidence in the food chain, and is he confident that the imported food, not just meat, sold in our shops is safe to eat?

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