To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy that any irradiated ingredients of compound ingredients in foodstuffs should be listed as irradiated ingredients.

Rules for the labelling of all foods and listed food ingredients which have been irradiated have already been agreed by the EC and implemented by the Government. Further proposals on food irradiation currently before the Council of Ministers include more detailed rules on the labelling of irradiated ingredients. I am seeking to ensure that the further requirements on ingredient declarations are as comprehensive as practicable.