Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what advice they are giving to consumers about the health risks of eating processed meat.

Public Health England’s advice is that, on average, people should be eating no more than 70 grammes of red and processed meat a day. People who eat a lot of these meats are at higher risk of bowel cancer than those who eat small amounts. Therefore, people who eat more than 90 grammes of red or processed meat a day are advised to cut down.