I thank my hon. Friend for being generous and giving way again. Does he recognise that the lay public’s understanding of scientific matters can also have a commercial knock-on effect? For example, tons of blueberries have been sold over the past couple of years, because they were thought to be a super-food that counteracted free radicals. More recent information suggests that they perhaps do not do that. One can envisage sales of that product plummeting and the commercial market being affected.
Department of Trade and Industry
Proceeding contribution from
Angela Watkinson
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 9 July 2007.
It occurred during Estimates day on Department for Trade and Industry.
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