Committee
Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee 12 November 2025
12 Nov 2025 · S6 · Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
Item of business
New Petitions
Mandatory Latex Labelling for Food Products (PE2178)
I support Mr Torrance’s recommendation and add that, as the petitioner points out, the number of people—they include my partner—who happen to have a latex allergy is not inconsiderable. It is between 1 and 6 per cent of the population. Like many allergies, it can have very serious consequences.
I am surprised, in a sense, that the issue has not been dealt with in the packaging world, which is normally fairly good at dealing with this kind of thing. Perhaps it is something that really needs to be dealt with, and I thought that we could stress as much in our letter.
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The Convener
Con
PE2178 was lodged by Hazel Margaret McIvor and calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to introduce mandatory latex labelling on foo...
David Torrance
SNP
In light of the final point, I wonder whether the committee would consider writing to the Scottish Government to ask whether its exploration of consumer prot...
The Convener
Con
Those two questions volunteer themselves, given that there is an interest in officials investigating those matters. There is progress that we could make on t...
Fergus Ewing
Ind
I support Mr Torrance’s recommendation and add that, as the petitioner points out, the number of people—they include my partner—who happen to have a latex al...
The Convener
Con
I think that that is a perfectly reasonable thing for us to do. We will illustrate why the issue is important, again within the context of the review that mi...