Cancer: Meat Products
(asked on 28th October 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the World Health Organization research showing that eating processed meat increases the risk of cancer.
This question was answered on 6th November 2015
The World Health Organization published its conclusions on the carcinogenicity of eating red and processed meat on 26 October. The detailed evaluations will be published in the future; until these are available, we cannot assess them in detail.