BRITISH baby milk has been given a clean bill of health by the Brussels Commission following the health scare over nine brands.
EU officials said yesterday they were happy there was no danger to either babies or adults from the contents of the unnamed brands, despite suggestions that they congained unacceptably high levels of phthalates - chemicals that can affect fertility.
The baby milk scare added to Britain's woes with the EU after Brussels demanded full details of the nine brands. Under special rapid response procedures agreed by all EU states, Britain was required to give Commission experts the details about baby milk which ministers refused to reveal publicly in Britain.
But yesterday, after 24 hours of analysis by EU experts, an EU spokesman said: "Our services have checked and they are in full agreement with the UK authorities that there is no risk. There is no imminent danger to babies or anything else. The matters rests there.
No EU governments have approached Brussels about British baby milk despite newspaper revelations about a possible risk. Yesterday Commission officials confirmed that, unlike the beef crisis, Brussels had no power to act against baby milk.
The EU rapid response procedure is invoked about twice a month, said Commission officials. There was nothing unusual in the request to Britain.