Mr.
Ellwood: To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish the Porton
Down report on engine oil and Aerotoxic Syndrome affecting pilots during
flight. [59354]
Derek
Twigg: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has two research reports from the
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, Porton Down on the subject of engine
oil contamination of cabin air. These are:
"The toxicity of aircraft lubricant
pyrolysis products related to Cabin Air Quality Incidents", by J Jenner, B
Jugg, J Scawin, N Osmond and P Rice, dated December 2001, and,
"Analysis of aircraft
air-conditioning duct contaminants", by J Jenner and B Muir, dated July
2003.
These reports
contributed to the CAA paper 2004/04 "Cabin Air Quality" which was
published on the CAA's website in 2004. I am informed by the CAA that the
technical content of these two reports appears in its entirety in the CAA's
paper. The CAA, which has copyright, has no plans to publish these reports
separately.
In addition to
these two research reports the CAA has a review document:
"A Review of Three Reports on the
Toxicology of Aviation Lubricant Constituents", by J Jenner, B Jugg and J
Scawin, dated May 2002"
I am informed by the CAA that this paper is a
critique of other scientific work, and was prepared for CAA internal use only.
The CAA has no plans to publish this paper and the Department does not have a
copy of it.