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New rules on cattle TB

THE Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has published draft regulations on cattle TB intended to clarify and strengthen controls over the disease. The changes proposed would:

- require laboratories which identify the M bovis organism in any mammal to report it to the Veterinary Laboratories Agency of MAFF,

- clarify the Minister's power to impose movement restrictions on herds where a farmer refuses to have a tuberculin test carried out by the due date, and

- create a new power to impose movement restrictions to prevent cattle being moved between the two stages of the tuberculin test (except under licence to slaughter).

The measures are to be introduced in the new Tuberculosis (England) Order 2001 subject to the results of consultation.

Updated: 10:20 Thursday, February 22, 2001