§ The Countess of Marasked Her Majesty's Government:
Whether a full epidemiological study, to include exposure of the affected animal or her dam to veterinary medicines such as vaccines and hormone injections containing bovine tissues, organophosphate parasiticides, or feeds which were likely to have contained residues of organophosphate grain dressings, will be conducted on the four-year old Holstein cow recently found to be suffering from BSE; and whether her toxic load has been investigated. [HL3217]
§ Baroness HaymanA full investigation of veterinary treatments is being carried out. We already know that the animals were not subject to oestrus synchronisation using pituitary extract.
It is not possible to examine the toxic load of either the case or her dam as suitable tissues have not been retained.