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Mr. Clifton-Brown
To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what assessment he has made of the security of Britain's tuberculosis-free status. [8893]
Mr. Rooker
The officially tuberculosis-free status of individual cattle herds in the United Kingdom is protected by routine tuberculin testing and by post mortem examination of cattle at the time of slaughter or killing.