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Dr. David Clark
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what are his estimates of the number of cattle infected with BSE, which have not shown symptoms of the disease, which have entered the food chain.
Mr. Gummer
No estimate has been made. The offals ban provides the necessary safeguards, should any cattle incubating the disease be slaughtered for human consumption.