Question
How many BSE-infected cow carcases have been dumped in the Attlebridge tip in Norfolk. - Including figures. - (Holding answer 2 May 1996).
Answer
Mr. Garrett: To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food how many BSE-infected cow carcases have been dumped in the Attlebridge tip in Norfolk.[27410] Mrs. Browning: [holding answer 2 May 1996]: Approximately 360 carcases of BSE suspect animals were disposed of at the Attlebridge tip between September 1988 and December 1990. No carcases have been disposed there since 1990. Only three BSE carcases have been disposed of by burial since the end of 1991; these were all on remote sites where the preferred option-- incineration in specialist plant--was not practicable.