| Description | Seeking views on raising the minimum age for BSE testing cattle slaughtered for human consumption and fallen stock to 48 months and on amending the Tranmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (Scotland) Regulations 2006 to administer this change. |
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| ISBN | (Web Only) |
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| Official Print Publication Date | October 2008 |
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| Website Publication Date | November 03, 2008 |
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Annex B
BSE cases in cattle slaughtered for human consumption in the UK since November 2005
| Date of birth | Date of death | Age at death (months) | Sex | Final result |
1. | 18/02/1997 | 28/07/2006 | 113 | Female | Positive |
2. | 10/09/1999 | 01/09/2006 | 83 | Female | Positive |
3. | 12/08/2002 | 06/09/2006 | 48 | Female | Positive |
4. | 27/07/2000 | 27/04/2007 | 81 | Female | Positive |
5. | 05/04/1999 | 28/06/2007 | 98 | Male | Positive |
6. | 21/09/1998 | 04/09/2007 | 107 | Female | Positive |
7. | 30/09/1997 | 04/02/2008 | 124 | Female | Positive |
8. | 11/01/2003 | 03/07/2008 | 65 | Female | Positive |
9. | 24/11/1999 | 08/07/2008 | 103 | Female | Positive |
The UK has tested over 1.29 million cattle aged over 30 months, slaughtered for human consumption since November 2005.
There has been one BSE case in an over thirty month old bovine slaughtered for human consumption since November 2005 in Northern Ireland, in an animal whose date of birth could not be confirmed (but considered to have been born after August 1996) slaughtered in January 2007.