Ms Mary Gurrie:

The threshold in the nitrates rate throughout Europe is 50 mg/l of nitrate. Levels above that are considered a health risk and people should not drink it. We have one site, one of the groundwater bodies where the level is exceeded and there is treatment at the drinking water plant for that. It is a particular risk to young babies. I cannot remember the name of the illness, where it knocks out the oxygen in the body; it is called blue baby syndrome.