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To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the Food Standards Agency decision to restrict the operations of the cockle industry.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will make a statement on the Food Standards Agency decision to restrict the operations of the cockle industry.
Asked by
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
Answered by
Melanie Johnson
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
24 June 2003
For answer on
8 July 2003
Answered on
8 July 2003
Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make a statement on the Food Standards Agency decision to
restrict the operations of the cockle industry. [122195]
Miss Melanie Johnson: The Food Standards Agency (FSA)'s monitoring programme to detect marine biotoxins in shellfish, including
cockles, exists to protect public health. The toxins which are tested have the potential to cause illness, which in some cases may
be serious or life-threatening. The DSP test is approved as the standard reference method and is widely used in Europe.
Temporary Prohibition Orders (TPOs), are placed on beds where tests for shellfish biotoxins are positive. Affected areas remain
closed until two consecutive negative test results taken a week apart are observed.
Atypical results in tests for DSP have been observed in some samples of cockles and mussels in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
since 2001. The FSA has put in place a programme of research work to investigate the cause of the atypical response to the DSP test
and to assess its implications for human health. In the meantime, on the basis that the affected shellfish produce neurological
symptoms that lead to death in mice within a few minutes, the FSA considers that the shellfish could be harmful and recommends the
placing of TPOs on the affected beds in line with standard practice for known biotoxins. The FSA is keeping this policy under review
and will use findings from the research work to determine whether its existing policy should be maintained. It expects most of the
research to be completed later this summer.
The majority of harvesting areas are open most of the time. In order to reduce the impact of the temporary cockle-bed closures on
fishermen, while still protecting public health, the FSA has divided harvesting areas into zones, so that harvesting can continue
from beds where tests results are negative.
Subjects
Contamination; Fisheries; Environment protection; Food Standards Agency; Poisoning; Cockles
Date
8 July 2003
Reference
122195; 408 c772-3W;408 c770-1W
House
House of Commons
Answered by
Lord Touhig
(Labour)
Answering body
Wales Office
Type
Oral answers to questions
Subjects
Fisheries; Licensing; Environment protection; River Dee; Cockles
Date
30 April 2003
Reference
404 c287
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
1st supplementary on licences for the cockle fishing industry.
1st supplementary on licences for the cockle fishing industry.
Asked by
Ben Chapman
(Labour)
Answering body
Wales Office
Oral questions - 1st Supplementary
Status
Answered
Answered on
30 April 2003
Subjects
Fisheries; Licensing; Environment protection; River Dee; Cockles
Date
30 April 2003
Reference
404 c287
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
House
House of Commons
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are being taken to compensate those affected by loss of earnings caused by the closure by the Food Standards Agency of cockle beds in Boston and Skegness.
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are being taken to compensate those affected by loss of earnings caused by the closure by the Food Standards Agency of cockle beds in Boston and Skegness.
Asked by
Mark Simmonds
(Conservative)
Answered by
Elliot Morley
(Labour)
Answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
27 January 2003
For answer on
4 February 2003
Answered on
4 February 2003
Mr. Simmonds: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what measures are being taken to compensate
those affected by loss of earnings caused by the closure by the Food Standards Agency of cockle beds in Boston and Skegness.
[94222]
Mr. Morley: This Department does not operate any schemes of compensation for workers in the shellfish industry.
Subjects
Compensation; Closures; Boston and Skegness; Cockles
Date
4 February 2003
Reference
94222; 399 c147W
House
House of Commons