Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 24698
BSE: Disease Control
Tabled: 2 May 2024
Answered: 8 May 2024
Question
Stephen Morgan
Labour — Portsmouth South
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has identified the original source of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the UK.
Answer
Classical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was first diagnosed in the United Kingdom in 1986. Scientific opinion is that classical BSE was caused by feeding feedstuffs to cattle that were contaminated with a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (...
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