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BSE

Mr. Redmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Wales what action the Intervention Board executive agency is taking to ensure that the products of rendered cattle aged over 30 months and currently stored in (a) Exeter, (b)Belfast, (c) Liverpool and (d) Gloucestershire are not contaminated with BSE; and if he will make a statement.[36339]

Mr. Baldry: I have been asked to reply.

The produce of animals rendered under the over-30-month scheme is being stored pending destruction. The animals are processed in approved plants which meet Community standards for rendering ruminant waste. Those standards are implemented in GB in the Animals By-Product Order 1992 (as amended) and the Specified Bovine Material (No 2) Order 1996.

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