Pregnant women warned not to eat liver
- Title
- Pregnant women warned not to eat liver
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 18 Oct 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:02:48
- Description
- Chief Medical Officer Sir Donald Acheson on Government warnings to pregnant women to stay away from liver and liver products because of fears that its high vitamin A content may cause birth defects. They’re also calling on the farming industry to restrict the use of vitamin A in animal feeds and are approaching the EEC to do the same. Female interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Donald Acheson
- Keywords
- EEC; Pregnancy; Meat; Food production; Vitamins; Birth defects; Liver
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