HC Deb 11 December 1995 vol 268 c534W
Mr. Hinchliffe

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list the circumstances of the birth, feed history and date of death of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy case in June 1993, referred to in his answer of 31 October 1995,Official Report, column 200. [4970]

Mrs. Browning

[holding answer 8 December 1995]: The animal was born on 17 June 1993, of a dam which was culled in 1994 when 10 years old and showed no symptoms of BSE. The suspect was slaughtered on 11 August 1995, and is known to have been fed on concentrate feed. We are currently tracing the feed ingredients, although the material consumed by this animal will clearly no longer he available for analysis.