27/04/2011
Scientists have discovered that more than 80 per cent of langoustines they tested from the River Clyde had plastic in their gut. Plus, how Chernobyl still affects sheep farmers.
Langoustines are perhaps better known in their processed form as scampi and they're worth around £96 million a year to Scottish fishermen. But researchers say that 83% of the crustaceans they tested in the Clyde estuary had plastic fibres in their gut. Also, 25 years on from the Chernobyl disaster the Food Standards Agency is about to review restrictions which are still in place on 338 sheep farms in England and Wales. And, according to the Farming Minister Jim Paice, it's a 'radical and completely new way of working'. Charlotte Smith discusses how much a new advisory body on animal health and welfare will cost and how influential it will be.
Presenter: Charlotte Smith
Producer: Sarah Swadling.
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