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registered interest false remove filter
date less than 2021-04-13more like thismore than 2021-04-13
answering body
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept id 13 more like this
answering dept short name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
answering dept sort name Environment, Food and Rural Affairs more like this
hansard heading Potatoes: Storage more like this
house id 1 remove filter
legislature
25259
pref label House of Commons more like this
question text To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of licensing DMN for use in potato storage. more like this
tabling member constituency North West Norfolk remove filter
tabling member printed
James Wild more like this
uin 180626 more like this
answer
answer
is ministerial correction false more like this
date of answer less than 2021-04-21more like thismore than 2021-04-21
answer text <p>Before a pesticide can be used, its active substance must be approved and the pesticide itself must be authorised. Decisions on approval and authorisation are based on an assessment of the risks posed to people and to the environment. Such decisions are devolved and so are taken by the relevant government or by the Health and Safety Executive on its behalf.</p><p> </p><p>The active substance 1,4-dimethylnaphthalene (1,4-DMN) is approved but at present there is no authorised product. The UK Government and the Devolved Administrations have granted an emergency authorisation allowing the limited and controlled use until 31 May 2021 of a 1,4-DMN product to prevent sprouting of harvested potatoes. This emergency authorisation is granted in recognition of the need for sprout suppression and the lack, in certain circumstances, of alternative means of control.</p> more like this
answering member constituency Banbury more like this
answering member printed Victoria Prentis more like this
question first answered
less than 2021-04-21T13:58:31.657Zmore like thismore than 2021-04-21T13:58:31.657Z
answering member
4401
label Biography information for Victoria Prentis more like this
tabling member
4787
label Biography information for James Wild more like this