HC Deb 12 December 1997 vol 302 cc713-4W
Mr. Öpik

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the extent to which meat and bonemeal is fed to livestock in other European Union countries; and if he will make a statement. [20249]

Mr. Rooker

We are not in a position to make such an assessment.

Under EU Directive 94/381, farmers in other Member States are permitted to feed meat and bone meal (MBM), including mammalian MBM, to non-ruminant livestock. The UK has had far more cases of BSE than other Member States, and we therefore have measures which go considerably further than those taken elsewhere.