Report blasts Kenneth Clarke and Edwina Currie over salmonella fiasco

Title

Report blasts Kenneth Clarke and Edwina Currie over salmonella fiasco

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

2 Mar 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:02:55

Description

Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke and his former junior minister Edwina Currie have been criticised by an all-party commons committee report over their roles in the salmonella-infected eggs fiasco, Peter Spencer reports. Includes interviews with Clarke; Conservative MP and Committee Chairman Jerry Wiggin; Labour health spokesman Robin Cook.

Contributors

Peter Spencer; Robin Cook; Kenneth Clarke; Jerry Wiggin

Keywords

Reports; Government; Eggs; Edwina Currie; Salmonella; Public health; Bacteria

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