United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 41044
Bovine Tuberculosis: Testing
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18 August 2021
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6 September 2021 · Answer
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6 September 2021
Summary
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the total percentage of bovine TB tests involving the use of tuberculin that have produced false positives.
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18 August 2021
Written question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the total percentage of bovine TB tests involving the use of tuberculin that have produced false positives.
Source: Commons
6 September 2021
Answer
The Single Intradermal Comparative Cervical Tuberculin test, commonly known as the ‘comparative skin test’, is the primary official antemortem test for tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in the UK and Ireland. This test has a very high specificity at standard in...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-08-18/41044
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1351583
- uk · wq-1351583 · source updated 6 September 2021