Agri-Business
The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) is seeking laboratory services to test samples for BSE and scrapie.
The Department of Agriculture (DAFM) is inviting tenders for testing equipment for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and scrapie.
Sheep Technical
SIS eligible rams are in high demand since the launch of the scheme, which necessitates the need to genotype rams for their eligibility.
N.Ireland
Farmers in Northern Ireland could soon pay for BSE testing under new rules for dealing with TSE proposed by DAERA.
Beef
The EFSA recently published its first EU summary report on the monitoring of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) in cattle, sheep and goats.
Sheep
The numbers of reported scrapie cases have fallen significantly in recent years, according to latest figures from the Department of Agriculture.
