HC Deb 07 December 1976 vol 922 cc187-8W
Dr. Vaughan

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether the organisation for the control of rabies as set out in the guidelines to local authorities

only have been examined before shipment but must have been grown on nurseries certified to have been inspected during the growing season prior to export and found free from white rust. It would be difficult to justify adding to these restrictions because of an apparently isolated failure in one Dutch exporting nursery last spring, particularly as the Netherlands authorities immediately took precautionary steps. There is no evidence linking subsequent infection in this country with any primary source other than the spring infection