To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to the answer in the Official Report, 18 July, column 612, if the consideration being given by the Food Advisory Committee to statutory limits of aflatoxin in nuts and nut products extends to nuts and nut products intended for consumption by wild birds.

There are at present no plans to introduce statutory limits of aflatoxin in nuts and nut products for wild birds. My Department, along with that of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment, which has responsibility for the general protection of wild birds, is keeping the matter under close review.