Question follow-through · 13215

Lead: Contamination

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Food Standards Agency's planned review of dietary lead will consider the extent of contamination up to 100 kilometres downstream of historical lead mining sites.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 8 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 12 Nov 2024
Answer: 14 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the Food Standards Agency's planned review of dietary lead will consider the extent of contamination up to 100 kilometres downstream of historical lead mining sites.
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is planning to review dietary lead as part of its rolling programme of risk analysis of environmental contaminants in food. This will include consideration of areas where exposure is likely to be higher. Scoping work has st...

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