Aviation: Safety
Transport
Written answers and statements, 4 November 2009
Tobias Ellwood (- Shadow Minister, Culture, Media and Sport; Bournemouth East, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what recent reports he has received on the incidence of aerotoxic syndrome in airline cabins.
Paul Clark (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Transport; Gillingham, Labour)
In its 2007 report on cabin air, the Committee on Toxicity (COT) said (paragraph 28):
"it was agreed that the term aerotoxic syndrome was unhelpful because the health problems described were variable between subjects."
The Department for Transport and the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) keep abreast of news on aviation health. We have commissioned research by Cranfield university into cabin air quality aimed at filling a gap in knowledge.