| Heading: |
Meat Products: Nitrates |
| Question ID: |
1786958 |
| UIN: |
39839 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-03-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4124 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Chi Onwurah
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| Asking Member handle: |
ChiOnwurah
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@ChiOnwurah
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the safety of nitrate compounds used to colour preserved meat pink. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-03-28 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) considers the existing levels of nitrites in the United Kingdom to be sufficiently protective for consumers, and they remain important preservatives in a range of foods, which control a range of harmful micro-organisms. How... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |